Archaeologists Examine The Curtain Theater in London

According to a report published in the Guardian reports that archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology have excavated the well-preserved remains of The Curtain, a sixteenth-century theater where Shakespeare performed as an actor. They found a rectangular building that could have held about 1,000 people and segments of wall standing about five feet tall. Scholars think that Shakespeare may have staged the first performances of Romeo and Juliet and Henry V at the Curtain which was assumed to have a circular shape, since the prologue of Henry V mentions a wooden O. 

Artifacts from the site include a lead token, a broken bone comb, a mental mount for a cloth purse and a piece of green pottery thought to be the base of a bird call, perhaps used for stage effects. Bowsher now thinks that the Henry V prologue mentioning the wooden O may have been added later, when the play was performed at The Globe.