What happened in Shakespeare's "lost years"?
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Welcome to the History Extra podcast. Fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine. Today Shakespeare is a towering figure of global theatre. In the 1590s, he was just an up and coming young playwright, trying to scratch out a living in Shoritch's emerging theatre scene.
Daniel Swift revisits this early stage of the Bard's career in his new book, The Dream Factory. Linking it with the story of a long lost Shoreditch Playhouse simply called The theatre. I spoke to Daniel to find out more about how Shakespeare may have been inspired by a terrible play called Hamlet. And what it would have been like
to see one of his original productions. In your book, The Dream Factory You say that the globe Is Shakespeare's famous playhouse. But before it there was another. So what was this Playhouse? And why are we sat here talking about it today?
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