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In excellent picture of the exterior of the Swan is
furnished "by Vlascher1 s View of London, 1610 (see Figure 3).
W© not® that th® building was duodecahedrsl on the out side,
but th® interior probably was circular* At the time of its
erection it was "the largest and th® most magnificent play«
house" in London.28 It contained three galleries surround-
ing an open pit, with a stage projecting into the pit.
In the summer of 1596 a Dutch traveler named Johannes
d® Witt* a priest of St* Mary's in Utrecht, visited London,
and saw, as one of the most interesting sights of th© city,
a dramatis performance at the Swan, later he communicated
a description of the building to his friend, Arena van
Buchell, who recorded the description in his commonplace-
book, along with a crude and inexact drawing of the interior,
showing the stage, the three galleries, and the pit,29
A translation of a portion relating to the playhouses
follows*
There are four amphitheatres in London /She
Theatre, the Curtain, the Hose, and the Swwn/ of
n©"table beauty, which from their diverse signs
bear diverse names. ... Of all the theatres,
however, the largest and the most magnificent is
that one of which the sign is a swan, called in
the vernacular the Swan Theatre; for it accomo-
dates in its seats three thousand persons, and
is built of a mass of flint stones (of which
there is a prodigious supply in Britain), and
^Ibld.. p. 164.
- 29J. P. Collier, History of Im^llsh Dramatic Poetry,
III, 96.
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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/m1/28/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .