Archaeological findings at Shakespearean playhouses

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Shakespeare’s Restless World is currently being broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Today's episode Snacking Through Shakespeare: A Theatre Goer's Fork looks at what it would have been like inside Southwark's playhouses.


Julian Bowsher, Senior Archaeologist, Museum of London Archaeology

Excavations have been carried out at the sites of quite a range of Shakespearean playhouses, including from the site of the Theatre built by James Burbage in 1576, the Rose built in1587.

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