Fortune Theatre and Edward Alleyn blue plaque

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# Fortune Theatre and Edward Alleyn Standing on Fortune Street in the heart of Cripplegate, you're treading ground where Edward Alleyn's theatrical ambitions took physical form around 1600, when the Fortune Theatre rose as a direct rival to Shakespeare's Globe on the south bank. Alleyn, the era's m...

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Fortune Street, EC1

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Good Master Edward Alleyn's Fortune Theatre stood on a site near here in 1600