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Shakespeare's factory: archaeological evaluations on the site of the Globe Theatre at 1/15 Anchor Terrace, Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Simon Blatherwick  and
Andrew Gurr
Simon Blatherwick
Affiliation:
Museum of London Archaeological Service, 150 London Wall, London EC2Y 5HN, UK
Andrew Gurr
Affiliation:
Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 2AA, UK
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The physical form of the Elizabethan theatre, as shown by contemporary prints and engravings, has long been an important field of study for Shakespeare scholars. The discoveries in the late 1980s on Bankside of first the 16th-century Rose theatre and then the Globe have provided material remains of these structures, but at the same time posed new questions relating to design and construction, as this account of the excavation of part of the Globe site in 1989 and 1991 graphically demonstrates.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 251 , June 1992 , pp. 315 - 333
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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