Shakespeare is now a towering determine of world theatre. However within the 1590s, he was simply an up-and-coming younger playwright, making an attempt to scratch out a residing in Shoreditch’s rising theatre scene. Daniel Swift revisits this early stage of the Bard’s profession in his new guide The Dream Manufacturing unit, linking it with the story of a long-lost Shoreditch playhouse merely referred to as ‘The Theatre’. Chatting with Ellie Cawthorne, Daniel reveals what it could have been wish to see one among Shakespeare’s unique productions, and the way he might have been impressed by a horrible play referred to as Hamlet.
Daniel Swift is the creator of The Dream Manufacturing unit: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare (Yale College Press, 2025).