Note 951 — THE ROARING GIRL.
Reading edition
vast theatre] i.e. the Fortune, in Golden or Golding Lane, St. Giles’s, Cripplegate. It was built by Henslowe, and Alleyn (the founder of Dulwich College), in 1599-1600. It was eighty feet square on the outside, and fifty-five feet square within. It was destroyed by fire in 1621. See Collier’s Hist. of Engl. Dram. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 302.