They found The Theatre!!! (maybe)

I'm about to do what Robert calls "nerding out," but bear with me.

As a budding Shakespeare scholar, this is a big deal. Archaeologists in London found what they believe to be the original site of The Theatre.
Much ado over Shakespearean theater find

The Theatre was one of the first playhouses that Shakespeare (along with some fellow actors) co-owned. There's a fun story that says that when the lease of the land expired, the actors (who owned the playhouse itself) dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transferred it down the river Thames, rebuilt it, and renamed it The Globe.

I visited London in May 2004 with a class, and we were able to visit the sites of two of Shakespeare's most important theatres: The Rose and The Globe.


The Rose Theatre (mentioned in the article) original site; behind these doors are the original foundations of the Rose. We had an appointment to see the foundations, but apparently the people we made the arrangements with forgot because the doors were locked. It's a bank now.











The Globe Theatre original site; it's now an apartment building. They outlined the Globe's foundation in the apartment building's pavilion.


The New Globe Theatre; built just blocks away from the original Globe site, both right off the Thames.