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.
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...
05-17-2016, 06:52 PM
Dig shows that scholars have more to learn about Shakespeare's theaters
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