RENAISSANCE THEATRES-. In 1576, James Burbage, leader of the Earl of Leicester's men, build the first permanent theater, called "THE THEATRE," in a field near Shoreditch, out of the city and thus out of the control of the Lord Mayor, who was the official "censor" of plays. Other permanent, public theatres soon followed: THE CURTAIN, 1577; THE ROSE, 1588; THE SWAN, 1595. Shakespeare's theatre, THE GLOBE, was built in 1598. In addition to the public theatres, there were private ones, chief among them the Blackfriars (1576). They were different from public theatres because they: were roofed, had more elaborate interior arrangements, and presented plays originally acted by child players.
