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Shakespeare in the City Walk

Name: Shakespeare in the City Walk
Address: Blackfriars underground station, London, EC4V4DD, GB
Telephone: +447905746733
Price range: $

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A 1 hour 45 minute Tour of Shakespeare's life NORTH of the River Thames which has a 100% TripAdvisor rating. I hope to do it for 22 more!

Learn about Shakespeare's life & see many monuments - including an 18 foot totem pole!. Also hear Shakespeare speeches given by your Guide, Declan This Tour covers Shakespeare's life on the North Bank of the river Thames (NOT the South Bank where the Globe Theatre is). The Tour has been highly acclaimed and I've been performing it for 22 years. I love Shakespeare and my passion shines through during the Tour. I'd love to meet you, so come along with a friend or two, or just by yourself. You'll learn more about Shakespeare's life and personality, his work and his London - even his love-life! It's a 'feel-good' experience. I even do a few of his most famous speeches - I was a professional actor in the past - and that's a feature people really love....

18/10/2026

Fancy attending one of London’s best-rated tours, for £5 instead of the normal £20?

You can, thanks to Airbnb. They're giving ten people the chance to experience the tour for a 'Fiver' because they think it's one of London’s best experiences.

I’ve performed 'Shakespeare in the City’ for over 25 years, spreading the word internationally about the work, life, and personality of this world literary icon.

The tour is not a dry, academic lecture though, I'm informative and entertaining, friendly and engaging.

We tread in Shakespeare's footsteps and visit places familiar to him, including the sites of both London houses we know of. I'll inform you about his society and his times, and their impact on his work and life. I'll deepen your understanding of Shakespeare the man with sections on his vocabulary, sexuality, and religion.

Plus, the tour features a multitude of memorials, including statues, busts, plaques, stained glass windows - and an astonishing 18-foot (5.5 metres) tall totem pole based on one of his greatest speeches.

I’ve acted professionally, and along the way I'll be reciting and acting for you a few of Shakespeare’s famous speeches.

If you click on the link below, you’ll have the chance to attend the tour on Friday 23rd October 2026 from 11am -1pm for £5 only (normally £20).

It’s ‘first come, first served’ though, so get clicking! The tour has almost 250 5-star reviews, you won't be disappointed.

See you on the tour!

Declan

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16/11/2025

I now have 223 5-Star reviews for this Shakespeare tour of mine, meaning TripAdvisor rates it as 4.9 out of 5.

The following Tags are words and phrases that people have most often said about the Tour, as collated by TripAdvisor. I like them a lot!

17/05/2025

A simply beautiful review of my Shakespeare Tour yesterday.
When you have this effect on people, it's really worth the effort.

03/04/2025

In this Sonnet, Number 66, William Shakespeare is having a very bad day indeed and he provides a heart-felt laundry list of complaints about his life.

In an era of suspicion, intolerance and death-dealing, he can't be open so he tries to mask the things that are upsetting him, but there is no doubting his agitation and his sense that he is beset by a sea of troubles on every side and he feels like giving up.

At an appropriate point on the Tour, I zero in on line 4.

I talk about how his passion runs away with him here to the extent that something very important to him is not properly disguised, and how it really could have got him in a whole heap of trouble...

15/01/2024

The 8th time, I believe, that I've performed my Shakespeare Tour for Drake University's Theatre Class.

Drake (from the US) are always great, but it was absolutely FREEZING this particular day ("it will feel like -3" warned the BBC).

I do hope they all managed to avoid colds/flu/pneumonia!

24/06/2023

Me on the left with a couple of fans of the tour (the Australian woman on the right has attended twice, and brought her husband along this time).

30/04/2023

A beautiful Tripadvisor review today of the Tour:

FINDING SHAKESPEARE IN HIDDEN PLACES.

I thought I knew about Shakespeare - I didn't!

A truly great tour. Declan was entertaining and informative, leading us to places we didn't even know existed, with fascinating snippets about the Bard's life.

I felt I met the 'real' Shakespeare for the first time.

I would highly recommend this tour!

03/02/2023

I've been doing my 'Shakespeare in the City Walk' for Drake University (coming over from the USA) for what must be close to ten years now.

I always really enjoy doing the Tour for Drake because the students are always incredibly well-behaved and attentive. They are a real credit to Drake University (and their parents, and their country)!

The teachers are great too.

This photo shows the most recent group from Drake University.

I thought it was particularly nice of them the way they crouched down to make me appear a little taller! 😁

Long may our association continue...

Declan

22/01/2022

Back in action! Hopefully, in years to come people will wonder why we were all masked.

This was taken on 12th January 2022, and it's at least the 6th time Drake University in the USA have come on my 'Shakespeare in the City Walk' Tour.

The Tour Leader gave a 5-star review on TripAdvisor, and said:

"Our London Theatre History travel seminar has been booking Declan's Shakespeare walking tour for over 6 years! Many bits of information included along a rambling walk through the passages of London, you wouldn't know to notice.

Our students love it and loved the inclusion of some of Shakespeare's words performed by Declan at key moments along the way. Will continue to book this, as long as we are able!"

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Blackfriars Underground Station
London
EC4V4DD

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11am - 1pm

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+447905746733

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