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THE THEATRE: "ITS SITE IS NOW OCCUPIED BY BUILDINGS ON THE EAST SIDE OF CURTAIN ROAD, E.C. 2, EXTENDING NORTH FROM THE CORNER OF THAT ROAD AND NEW INN YARD, FROM NO. 86 (ON WHICH ARE TWO MEMORIALS) TO NO. 100 (THE LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION)."

THE CURTAIN: "IT WAS SOMEWHERE IN A LARGE FORMER PASTURE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HOLYWELL LANE, E.C.2, THAT, LIKE THE LAND ON WHICH THE THEATRE STOOD, HAD BELONGED TO HOLYWELL PRIORY . . . THE PLAYHOUSE IS OFTEN SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ON THE EASTERN SIDE OF THE PRESENT CURTAIN ROAD, E.C. 2, ABOUT WHERE HEWETT STREET IS, . . . THE PLAYHOUSE, HOWEVER, COULD HAVE BEEN ELSEWHERE IN THE PASTURE, CLOSER, FOR EXAMPLE, TO HOLYWELL LANE AND, OR, SHOREDITCH HIGH STREET."

Source: Wickham, Berry, Ingram, English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660 Cambridge UP 2000, p. 330, 404.