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THE FORTUNE: "IT LAY BETWEEN TWO STREETS THAT RAN (AND RUN) SOUTH FROM OLD STREET TOWARDS ST. GILES CRIPPLEGATE, IN THE PARISH OF WHICH IT WAS. THE STREETS ARE GOLDEN (OR GOLDING) LANE AND WHITECROSS STREET, AND THE PLAYHOUSE WAS WHERE THE PRESENT FORTUNE STREET, E.C. 1, RUNS EAST AND WEST BETWEEN THEM. THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE PLAYHOUSE WAS PROBABLY VIA GOLDING LANE."

Source: Wickham, Berry, Ingram, English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660 Cambridge UP 2000, p. 531.