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Dateline: 21st April, 2002 Shakespeare's London And the First Professional Theatre Join BTG reviewer Jackie Fletcher in a guided walk starting at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch (4 minutes by bus from Liverpool Street Station, mainline and underground). 3pm Sat and Sun 25, 31 May, 1, 7, 8 June If you want to find out about the first professional theatres in Britain during the Elizabethan Renaissance, about the actors and playwrights who were Shakespeare's friends and enemies, the audiences, the companies and their rivalries, the politics of censorship from Court and City, join the walk from the site of the first theatre buildings in Shoreditch to the reconstructed Globe on the Southbank. Get the facts and the gossip as Shakespeare rises from 'upstart crow' to 'swan of Avon' in a City of mercantile bustle and social contradictions mirrored on the stages of The Theatre, The Curtain, The Rose, The Globe, The Hope and The Fortune. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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