Name: A Gentleman Player; His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth
Author: Robert Neilson Stephens
ISBN: 978-1533637161

A Gentleman Player; His Adventures on a Secret Mission for Queen Elizabeth

By Robert Neilson Stephens 4 Nov, 2020

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At three o'clock in the afternoon of the cold first Monday in March, 1601, a red flag rose, and a trumpet sounded thrice, from a little gabled turret protruding up out of a large wooden building in a field in that part of Southwark known as the Bankside and bordering on the Thames west of London Bridge. This rude edifice, or enclosure, was round (not like its successor, hexagonal) in shape; was in great part roofless; was built on a brick and stone foundation, and was encircled by a ditch for drainage. It was, in fact, the Globe Theatre; and the flag and trumpet meant that the "Lord Chamberlain's servants" were about to begin their performance, which, as the bill outside the door told in rough letters, was to be that of a new "Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmark," written by William Shakespeare. Less

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