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May 18, 2016
LONDON (AP) — London's relentless building boom has dug up another chunk of the city's history — one with a surprise for scholars of Shakespearean theater.
Archaeologists are excavating the remains of the Curtain, a 16th-century playhouse where some of the Bard's plays were first staged, before a new apartment tower sprouts on the site. Unexpectedly, the dig has revealed that the venue wasn't round, like most Elizabethan playhouses. It was rectangular.
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