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Image: The Rose - mislabeled The Globe - from Visscher's View of London 1616

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Description: In Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph Quincy Adams, this image is identified as the first Globe Theatre and is taken from Visscher's View of London published in 1616, but representing the city as it was several years earlier. In Shapiro, I. A. (1948). The Bankside Theatres: early engravings. Shakespeare Survey (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press) 1: 31. "…Visscher misnames it [sc. The Rose] the Globe and omits the latter altogether."
Title: The Rose - mislabeled The Globe - from Visscher's View of London 1616
Credit: The Project Gutenberg eBook, Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph Quincy Adams - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22397/22397-h/22397-h.htm
Author: Visscher's View of London
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License: Public domain
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