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In 1567 John Brayne went east of Aldgate to Stepney, where he erected a theatre called the Red Lion. It was the first permanent building designed expressly for dramatic performances to be constructed in Europe since late antiquity; the civic authorities of London, already unhappy with playing in
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Globe Theatre, famous London theater in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed. The Globe was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theaters. A reconstructed Globe opened at the original’s location in 1997.
Letters: <strong>Rupert Gavin</strong> and <strong>Austen Lynch </strong>on the Theatre (1576) and the Curtain theatre (1577), which hosted the earliest performances of William Shakespeare’s plays