Read the illustrated essay on The Elizabethan Theatre by Hilda D. Spear, University of Dundee. This essay is provided with hypertext links to slide images of Elizabethan London, click on the underlined or highlighted part of the text.
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Another well documented site at Northwestern University contains further basic information on Elizabethan theatre . There are also images of London places and contemporary theatres at the University of Penn's site on Renaissance England Urban Life . Click the cursor on the thumbnail image to enlarge the picture. In particular, there is an image of the Swan Theatre of c. 1596. This picture is a copy by Aernout van Buchel of a drawing by Johannes de Witt, a contemporary visitor to London.