Revealed: Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre

Remnants of the theatre which hosted the premieres of Henry V and Romeo and Juliet have been unearthed in East London.
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Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Image via www.fanpop.com

The well-preserved remains of an Elizabethan playhouse where Shakespeare’s Company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men performed between 1597 and 1599, have been unearthed in Shoreditch, East London.

It is believed to be the venue immortalised as ‘this wooden O’ in the prologue to Henry V, which many academics believe premiered at the Curtain Theatre with Shakespeare himself playing the role of the Chorus.

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