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Did you know? The first playhouse built in London was, The Red Lion, constructed in 1567 by John Brayne, James Burbage’s brother-in-law. The Red Lion was short lived and although commercially successful it is believed to have closed after one season the same year it opened. It was located north of the Tower of London laying outside of the city walls in White Chapel spelled Whitechapel today.
Our registered office is located in the heart of London’s historic theatre district, Shoreditch. It is only accessible by appointment. Our office is situated just around the corner from the original site of the Elizabethan playhouse, The Theatre, built in 1576. This was London’s first permanent, purpose-built theatre, owned by James Burbage.
Head south-west from our office to the site of the Parish Church of St. Olave’s, Silver Street, located at 3 Noble Street, where Shakespeare lived from 1604 with his wife Anne. Here it is thought he wrote King Lear, Othello, and Measure for Measure.
From here head east to 35 Great St Helen’s, off Bishopsgate, where Shakespeare lived in the late 1590s.
Continue south-east down Bishopsgate and a short walk to 33 Eastcheap, and you will find the site of the Boar’s Head Inn which Shakespeare mentions in his plays as the notorious meeting place of Sir John Falstaff and Prince Hal and certainly a place Shakespeare and his fellow actors and writers would have known well. The current building has a boar’s head in its central architecture, see if you can find it.
From here return north-east toward Aldgate to the site of the inn-yard theatre also by the same name, The Boar’s Head Inn, which was used as a theatre from 1557 until 1616.
Overlay a modern map with an old map of London from Shakespeare’s time, with the above locations marked-out, and observe how closely-knit Shakespeare’s London was. It’s not hard to imagine and feel, how the energy of the bustling city, would have transferred between audiences and players on the stage of the Globe theatre, in a constant back and forth of humanity’s vigorous rhythm.
Look out for the plaques commemorating these locations.
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