William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . erized the English stage. The newdrama represented the very age and body of thetime, his form and pressure. The people itselfbrought its nobleness and its vileness to the stage was ever so human, no poetic life sointense. Wild, reckless, defiant of all past tradi-tions, of all conventional laws, the English dramatistsowned no teacher, no source of poetic inspiration,but the people itself. This vital relationship between the English peo-ple and the English drama explains the growinginterest in the stage during Shakespeares career asactor
William Shakespeare; poet, dramatist, and man . erized the English stage. The newdrama represented the very age and body of thetime, his form and pressure. The people itselfbrought its nobleness and its vileness to the stage was ever so human, no poetic life sointense. Wild, reckless, defiant of all past tradi-tions, of all conventional laws, the English dramatistsowned no teacher, no source of poetic inspiration,but the people itself. This vital relationship between the English peo-ple and the English drama explains the growinginterest in the stage during Shakespeares career asactor and dramatist, and the prosperity whichattended many theatrical ventures and notably hisown venture. When he joined Lord Leicesterscompany at The Theatre, which stood in Shoreditch,in the purlieus of the City, the Curtain, which wasa near neighbour, was the only rival for popular THE LONDON STAGE 115 patronage. But these houses were not long inpossession of the field. The Rose was built onBnnk>^ir1(\ Southwark, not far from the tavern from. THE GLOBE a drawing in the illustrated edition of Pennants London, in the British Museum. which Chaucers pilgrims set out on their immortalpilgrimage. To this theatre Shakespeares com-pany ultimately removed, and it is probable that on Il6 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE its narrow stage he began to emerge from obscurityboth as an actor and a playwright. He had gone along way on the road to fame and fortune whenRichard Burbage built the Globe Theatre in theneio^hbourhood of the Rose. Here his fortunes ofevery kind touched their zenith, and, by reason ofhis intimate association with its early history, theGlobe has become and is likely to remain the mostfamous theatre in the annals of the English the management of the Globe Shakespeare cameto hold a first place, with a large interest in its prof-its. It soon secured, and held until it was destroyedby fire in 1613, the first place in the hearts of theLondon public. Edward Alleyn w
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