The Curtain, in use from 1577 until 1625, has probably the longest of lifespan of all early modern playhouses, yet it had for some time been ‘the most ignored of the early modern London amphitheatres’ (Stern 2009, 77-78).
For this piece, I’ll be spending a year in the young Curtain playhouse as it makes its way into the brave new decade of 1580s.