Word: theater
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...museum's team, which has been working on the site since July, said it is now certain that the remains unearthed under a parking lot near London were part of the Globe, the most famous Elizabethan theater...
...Over the last few days it became clear that we had found the gallery walls of the theater," said Harvey Sheldon, senior archaeologist at the Museum of London, in a telephone interview Friday...
...Globe, a circular theater where Shakespeare staged many of his plays, was pulled down in 1644. And for centuries, literary and dramatic scholars have based their assumptions on the original staging of Shakespeare's plays on old sketches...
Only a small portion of the theater has been uncovered so far, Sheldon said. Museum archaeologists will now perform a complete site evaluation before continuing with the digging, he added...
According to Sheldon, most of the theater lies under 19th century buildings, while the area excavated so far was under a parking...