Inside the Red Bull Theatre, Clerkenwell, 1662. The Red Bull was an inn-yard conversion erected in Clerkenwell, London, operating in the 17th century. Frontispiece from Francis Kirkman's 'The Wits, or Sport Upon Sport', 1662.

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