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Shakespearean Playhouses

Note 115 — Chapter IV

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Johannes de Witt describes the Theatre and the Curtain along with the Swan and the Rose as "amphitheatra" (see page 167). It is quite possible that Shakespeare refers to the Curtain in the Prologue to Henry V as "this wooden O," though the reference may be to the Globe.

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