The Curtain playhouse, located in Shoreditch, London, is a venue where Shakespeare’s plays were performed and he, himself, acted. Henry V premiered here, and Shakespeare acted in Ben Jonson’s Every Man and His Humour. Thus, the excavation for The Stage is important not only to our national heritage, but to our global understanding of one of literature’s greatest contributors. In this blog, archaeologists Heather Knight, Kate Faccia, and Sarah Trehy explore how the excavation of Shakespeare's Rose playhouse shook up the world of archaeology and how it compares to the excavation of the Curtain playhouse.
