King’s English

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Introduction
King’s English was once the shop for The King’s School, Canterbury. Eminent alumni include William Harvey who discovered blood circulation and Christopher Marlowe.Born in Canterbury the same year, he was more famous than Shakespeare in his lifetime. The city’s theatre has his name.

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Hazle Ceramics
King’s English
Open Edition
on Canterbury King’s

 The much photographed 28 Palace Street from 1647, being shot by Hazle with her group. Dickens’ David Copperfield is said to partly set here. Due to an 1800s chimney door, the lean was stabilised in the 1980s.

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 Christopher Marlowe 1564-93 met an early death, likely murder, in a pub brawl. In the film Shakespeare in Love (1998) he helps to write Romeo and Juliet! Also a poet and translator, his most famous play Dr Faustus retells the old legend of a man selling his soul to the devil.

The King’s English
Several books bear this house name such as Kingsley Amis’s in 1999, subtitled A Guide to Modern Usage - an update on older versions. The collectors above visited the two floors of this light and airy bookshop on March 7 2010. As well as Hazle’s three Palace Street models and other gifts, books include beautiful hardbacks on the city and boxed classic sets of novels, plus the epic Oxford English Dictionary.

 The King’s School 1777 by F Grose. St Augustine’s school began here in 597AD, the oldest in the UK. In 1541 King Henry VIII formed a core of 50 King’s Scholars - and the name stuck.

 King’s School Gate

 King’s English at side