Daniel Swift The Dream Factory - London's First Playhouse

In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London’s first purpose-built commercial playhouse. Through the life of this little-known playhouse, discover how Shakespeare became Shakespeare, the Elizabethan stage began to flourish and the world that produced Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, Bomber County, was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, New Statesman, and Harper’s Magazine.