A great city taking shape, 'Open City: London, 1500-1700'

A great city taking shape, 'Open City: London, 1500-1700':
The exhibition’s curators...argue that during these two centuries, transformations took place in three major public arenas, “gathering places where people mixed for business, leisure and worship”: church, the theater and the market. And that those changes created an “open city.”


Edward Rothstein reviews 'Open City: London, 1500-1700' an exhibition currently on show at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC. The exhibit is on view through Sept. 30