Fortune Playhouse
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The Fortune Playhouse was an historic theatre in London. It was located between Whitecross Street and the modern Golden Lane, just outside the City of London. It was founded about 1600, and suppressed
Reconstruction of the theatre, drawn by Walter Godfrey in 1911 based on the builder's contract
A depiction of the Fortune in a stained glass memorial to Edward Alleyn
Plaque in Fortune Street, London
The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum in Tokyo, based on the Fortune.
The Swan (theatre)
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The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England, built in 1595 on top of a previously standing structure, during the first half of William Shakespeare's career. It was the fifth in the series of
Fortune Playhouse
…of London. It was founded about 1600, and suppressed by the Puritan Parliament in 1642. The Fortune Theatre was contemporary with Shakespeare's Globe, The Swan and others; it stood in the parish of St Giles-without-Cripplegate, to the west of the Shoreditch locations of The Theatre and the Curtain Theatre…
The exterior of the Swan Theatre: a redrawing of a detail from a panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher