The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0243 Thursday, 14 June 2012
From: John Briggs <
Date: June 13, 2012 8:15:41 PM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: The Curtain
Hardy M. Cook quoted Maev Kennedy, writing in The Guardian (and presumably following an overheated press release):
>Well preserved remains of Shakespeare’s original “wooden O” stage, the
>Curtain theatre where Henry V and Romeo and Juliet were first performed,
>have been discovered in a yard in east London
Henry V was, indeed, probably first performed at The Curtain, but R&J was first performed at The Theatre.
John Briggs