A group of archaeologists discovered in east London the remains of a theater where William Shakespeare played his first starring roles on stage and took his first works as a writer, announced Wednesday the Museum London .
The playwright took the stage of the Theatre in Shoreditch, east London, as an actor in the company of Lord Chamberlain's Men, which also staged some of the first works he wrote.
Experts think that the Shoreditch Theatre conducted the first performances of 'Richard III', 'The Dream of a Summer Night "and" The Merchant of Venice'.
theater owners dismantled the night of 1599 following a dispute with managers who had rented. Part of the wood was then used to build another theater, Globe, south of the River Thames, which runs the British capital. The
Museum of London archaeologists discovered where was the original theater, which was octagonal, while doing some work for the construction of a new theater. "We knew of its existence for some time but never found any remains," he told AFP Museum spokesman, Tim Morley. "It's the theater where he first served the company of actors from which Shakespeare belonged and that his works represented the first time, when he began writing" he said.
The remains found are kept in the new theater under construction. "Finding that we build a theater for the XXI century in the same place where some of Shakespeare's plays were represented for the first time is a great source of inspiration," said Jeff Kelly, president of the Tower Theatre Company, the company that builds the new theater.
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