Eastcheap

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area of London district street

Eastcheap is a district in the City of London historically known for its bustling markets and taverns, famously depicted as the boisterous haunt of commoners and rogues in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays.

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Label	Occurrences
Eastcheap canonical	13

Statements (35)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	area of London ⓘ district ⓘ street ⓘ
appearsInGenre	Elizabethan drama ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
currentUse	commercial street ⓘ
depictedAs	boisterous haunt of commoners and rogues in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays ⓘ
etymology	name derives from Old English "cheap" meaning market ⓘ
fictionalAssociation	Boar’s Head Tavern ⓘ Prince Hal ⓘ Sir John Falstaff ⓘ
governedBy	Corporation of London ⓘ surface form: City of London Corporation
hasCulturalSignificance	important setting in English literature ⓘ
hasHeritage	associations with London’s tavern culture ⓘ
historicalUse	market street ⓘ meat market ⓘ site of taverns ⓘ
knownFor	association with Shakespearean drama ⓘ bustling markets ⓘ taverns ⓘ
locatedIn	City of London ⓘ England ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London historic City of London ward area ⓘ
locatedNear	Fish Street Hill ⓘ Gracechurch Street ⓘ London Bridge ⓘ Monument to the Great Fire of London (with Robert Hooke) ⓘ surface form: Monument to the Great Fire of London
mentionedIn	Henry IV, Part 1 ⓘ Henry IV, Part 2 ⓘ
partOf	historic commercial core of the City of London ⓘ
timePeriodOfProminence	Middle Ages ⓘ early modern period ⓘ
transportConnection	near Bank–Monument underground complex ⓘ near Monument tube station ⓘ

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mistress Quickly → associatedWith → Eastcheap ⓘ

Pudding Lane → hasConnectingStreet → Eastcheap ⓘ

Great Tower Street → connectsTo → Eastcheap ⓘ

1 Henry IV → featuresLocation → Eastcheap ⓘ

Boar’s Head Tavern → locatedIn → Eastcheap ⓘ

Prince Hal → associatedWithPlace → Eastcheap ⓘ

Monument Underground station → hasEntranceOn → Eastcheap ⓘ

Fish Street Hill → hasJunctionWith → Eastcheap ⓘ

St Leonard Eastcheap → locatedOnOrNear → Eastcheap ⓘ

St Clement Eastcheap church → near → Eastcheap ⓘ

subject surface form: St Clement Eastcheap

St Margaret Pattens church → near → Eastcheap ⓘ

subject surface form: St Margaret Pattens

Monument tube station → near → Eastcheap ⓘ

Gracechurch Street → connectsTo → Eastcheap ⓘ