Dorset Garden Duke’s Theatre

theater, London, United Kingdom

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In Western theatre: Restoration theatre
…Sir Christopher Wren built the Duke’s Theatre, Dorset Garden, for Davenant, and three years later he built the first Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, for Killigrew. These theatres combined Continental innovations with some of the features of the Elizabethan stage. A curved “apron” stage extended beyond the proscenium arch from which…
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