Prescot Playhouse

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The Prescot Playhouse was a purpose-built Elizabethan theatre in the then-Lancashire town of Prescot, now in Merseyside, England. It was built in approximately 1593, and was demolished in the early 17th century. It was a cockpit design.

It was one of the few free-standing theatres outside of London, and most probably served the gentry visiting the Earl of Derby in nearby Knowsley. Several Shakespeare plays were performed there.

[edit] Sources

  • George, David, "The Playhouse at Prescot" in Wilson et al (eds), Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare, Manchester University Press, 2003


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