Caption:
The Swan Theatre, London, 1596, (1893). The Swan theatre was built by Francis Langley in c1595. The last known mention of the theatre dates from 1632. After a drawing in the University Library, Utrecht, in Gaedertz, "Zur Kenntniss der Alt-Englischen Buhne". An illustration from "A Short History of the English People", by John Richard Green, illustrated edition, Volume II, Macmillan and Co, London, New York, 1893.