ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Britain’s first playhouse ‘The Theatre’ was built in Finsbury Fields, London in 1576. It was constructed by Leicester’s Men – an acting company formed in 1559 from members of the Earl of Leicester’s household.

Detailed explanation-2: -Playhouses and the Globe In 1576, when Shakespeare was still a 12-year-old in Stratford-upon-Avon, James Burbage built the Theatre just outside London. The Theatre was among the first playhouses in England since Roman times.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first plays were performed in the Theatre of Dionysus, built in the shadow of the Acropolis in Athens at the beginning of the 5th century, but theatres proved to be so popular they soon spread all over Greece.

Detailed explanation-4: -SHAKESPEARE’S PARENTS However, around 1576 John Shakespeare was beset by severe financial difficulties and he was forced to mortgage his wife’s inheritance. William’s mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a prosperous farmer, Robert Arden, who had left her some land in Wilmcote, near Stratford.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Theatre was constructed in Shoreditch in 1576 by James Burbage with his brother-in-law John Brayne (the owner of the unsuccessful Red Lion playhouse of 1567) and the Newington Butts playhouse was set up, probably by Jerome Savage, some time between 1575 and 1577.