The Rose playhouse was the first purpose-built theatre south of the Thames to be located on Bankside, Southwark. The playhouse was erected by Philip Henslowe in 1587 and functioned for a couple of ...

But 300 "groundlings", who will watch plays in a roofless replica Elizabethan theatre in the city this summer, will hope "this sun of York" shines on them. Shakespeare's Rose, which opens on ...