There’s Little Gain In Resurrecting Bard’s First Theatre

The plan “to raise a new stage on the bones of Shakespeare’s first theatre in Shoreditch, almost certainly the first purpose-built theatre in Britain,” is misguided. “We already have a replica Elizabethan theatre, of course, and – given that the Globe was built from the skeleton of the Theatre – it surely can’t have been that different from the original, at least in its basic form. If the plan is to build something along Elizabethan lines, it’s difficult to see the point.”