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there erected a new® playehouse with the sayd timber and'
woode.*'^
A short distance to the south of the Theater (see
Figure 2) and adjoining Finsbury Field, a second public play-
house, the Curtain, was erected* The new playhouse derived
its name from the Curtain ©state on which It was built.,.®
tike the Theater, the Curtain was a peculiarly shaped build-
ing, designed particularly for actings "those playhouses that
are erected and built only for such purposes# • , namely the
Curtain and th© Theatre,^ wrote the Privy Council. It was
polygonal or circular in shape, was constructed of timber,
and was finished on the outside with lime and plaster. The
Interior consisted of three galleries surrounding an open
yard. There was a platform projecting into the middle of
the yard, with dressing-rooms at the rear, "heavens" over-
head, and a flagpole rising above the "heavens,'1 That some
sign was displayed in front of the door is likely, Maione
writesi "The original sign hung out at this playhouse was the
painting of a curtain striped.*'*"0
In the winter of 1585 Lawman entered into his seven
years1 agreement with Burbage and Brayne by which the Theater
^Charles Norman, So Worthy a Friend: William Shakespeare«
p. 210. ~*
8Joseph Quincy Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses,^ p. 75.
9j. R. Dasent, Acts of the Privy Council. XXVII, 313,
cited by Mams, op. c"i¥ t p,"""W
1%. Mai one, Variorum, III, 54, cited by Adams, op. cit.,
p. 78.
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Morris, Marjorie Rogers. A Proposed Reconstruction of the Elizabethan Globe Theater in Odessa, Texas, thesis, August 1950; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc163813/m1/22/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .