Readers reply: What if Shakespeare was dropped in modern-day London?

‘Chuffed to the gills at all the pubs named after him’ … a William Shakespeare lookalike outside Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, UK. Photograph: Simon Hadley/Alamy

If William Shakespeare – or Florence Nightingale, or Attila the Hun, or Julius Caesar, or Jane Austen, or Pocahontas – was dropped in Trafalgar Square, London, what would they find most unusual? And how would we explain it to them? Giles, Suffolk

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