Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Ma Ann Charters and a town left in

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Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Ma Ann Charters and a town left inHow Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London's first playhouse and the people actors, writers, builders, investors who built the Theatre. Between 1576 and 1598, a playhouse called the Theatre stood in the northeast suburbs of London, until it was secretly torn down and its timbers used to build the much more famous Globe. Dreamed up and run by a former actor and notorious brawler named James Burbage, the Theatre was the first purpose