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05-17-2016, 06:52 PM
Dig shows that scholars have more to learn about Shakespeare's theaters
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LONDON — London's relentless building boom has dug up a**ther chunk of the city's history — one with a surprise for scholars of Shakespearean theater.
Archaeologists are excavating the remains of the Curtain, a 16th-century playhouse where some of the Bard's plays were first staged, before a new apartment tower sprouts on the site. Unexpectedly, the dig has revealed that the venue wasn't round, like most Elizabethan playhouses. It was rectangular.
SEE ALSO: Shakespeare plays reimagined as Kardashian dramas (http://mashable.com/2016/04/25/shakespeare-kardashians/)
That came as a surprise, because the best-k**wn fact about the Curtain is that Shakespeare's "Henry V" was first staged here — and the play's prologue refers to the building as "this wooden O." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/shakespeare-theatre-london/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — London's relentless building boom has dug up a**ther chunk of the city's history — one with a surprise for scholars of Shakespearean theater.
Archaeologists are excavating the remains of the Curtain, a 16th-century playhouse where some of the Bard's plays were first staged, before a new apartment tower sprouts on the site. Unexpectedly, the dig has revealed that the venue wasn't round, like most Elizabethan playhouses. It was rectangular.
SEE ALSO: Shakespeare plays reimagined as Kardashian dramas (http://mashable.com/2016/04/25/shakespeare-kardashians/)
That came as a surprise, because the best-k**wn fact about the Curtain is that Shakespeare's "Henry V" was first staged here — and the play's prologue refers to the building as "this wooden O." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/17/shakespeare-theatre-london/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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