Abstract
N 1635, CUTHBERT BURBAGE WROTE that his father, James, the first builder of Playhowses.'1 He was thinking of the Theatre in Shoreditch, which his father had built in 1576. It has been conventional for a long time, therefore, not only to regard the Theatre as the first public playhouse in the English-speaking world but to date the beginning of the so-called Shakespearean period as 1576. In 1913 C. W. Wallace called a book about the Theatre The First Public Theatre, and in 1979 some colleagues and I called another The First Public Playhouse. There are verities in our business, and this should be one of them.
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