1595 sketch of a performance in progress on the stage of the Swan Theatre Stock Image

by WHPics

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1595 sketch of a performance in progress on the stage of the Swan Theatre. Draw from Historia general de la literatura by JM Blecua, 1944

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Keywords

• The Swan
• theatre
• Southwark
• London
• England
• 1595
• 16th Century
• William Shakespeare
• large public playhouses
• playgoers
• Langley
• sketch
• performance in progress
• thrust stage
• planities fine arena
• procenium
• platform stage
• open stage
• building
• flint concrete
• Pembroke
• Richard Jones
• Thomas Downtown
• William Bird
• The Lord Chamberlain Men
• Admiral Men
• Richard Vennar
• troupes
• drama
• Thomas Middleton
• popular entertainments
• swashbuckling competitions
• bear-baiting