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The Bell Savage Inn's inner courtyard, an inn dating back to 1420 but rebuilt in 1666. This picture shows its appearance in the 19th century, shortly before demolition. In the historical era of English Renaissance drama, an Inn-yard theatre or Inn-theatre was a common inn with an inner courtyard with balconies that provided a venue for the presentation of stage plays.
In Elizabethan entertainment, troupes were created and they were considered the actor companies. They travelled around England as drama was the most entertaining art at the time. Elizabethan actors never played the same show on successive days and added a new play to their repertoire every other week.
The theatre was built by the carpenter John Griggs. [5] The new building was of timber, with a lath and plaster exterior and thatch roof. In shape it was a fourteen-sided polygon, of about 72 feet (22 m) in external diameter. [6] The inner space was also a fourteen-sided polygon, about 47 feet (14 m) wide.
The Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch (in Curtain Road, part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. Built in 1576, after the Red Lion , it was the first permanent theatre built exclusively for the showing of theatrical productions in England , and its first successful one.
The Curtain Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Hewett Street, Shoreditch (within the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. It opened in 1577, and continued staging plays until 1624.
The Red Lion was an Elizabethan playhouse located in Whitechapel (part of the modern Borough of Tower Hamlets), just outside the City of London on the east side.. Built in 1567 for John Brayne, citizen and Grocer, this was the first known attempt to provide a purpose-built playhouse in London for the many Tudor age touring theatrical companies - and perhaps the first purpose-built venue known ...
The Elizabethan stage was typically found in public theatres as plays were no longer performed outside. Theatres were simple in structure, mostly circular in form, within was a courtyard open to the sky, surrounded by two or three tiers of covered galleries. At one side of the courtyard was the stage.
The Prescot Playhouse was an Elizabethan theatre in the town of Prescot, which was then in Lancashire.The playhouse was built before 1603, probably in the mid-1590s, and probably remained in theatrical use until 1609.