New study of 1989 excavation archive
12th July 2007
The Rose theatre – the place in Elizabethan London where one could see Shakespeare and Marlowe performed – may have started life as a bear-baiting arena. This is one of the deductions drawn from this new study of the archive from the excavations of 1989, entitled The Rose Theatre, London: the state of knowledge and what we still need to know.
Authors Jon Greenfield & Andrew Gurr present a fascinating new model for the theatre's evolution, offer a fresh reconstruction of the building in its heyday and put in a powerful plea for more archaeological investigation on the ground.
Download the Study here (PDF, 2.6MB)
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Extract from a drawing featured in the study, showing site levels and the yard.