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.