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The Swan (theatre)
Former theatre in London, England
For other uses, see Swan Theatre.
The Swan was a theatre in Southwark, London, England, built in 1595 on top of a previously standing structure,[1] during the first half of William Shakespeare's career.[2] It was the fifth in the series of large public playhouses of London, after James Burbage's The Theatre (1576) and Curtain (1577), the Newington Butts Theatre (between 1575 and 1577) and Philip Henslowe's Rose (1587–88).
The Swan Theatre was located in the manor of Paris Gardens, on the west end of the Bankside district of Southwark, across the Thames River from the City of London. It was at the northeast corner of the Paris Garden estate nearest to London Bridge that Francis Langley had purchased in May 1589 at a distance of four hundred and twenty-six feet from the river's edge.
Playgoers could arrive also by water landing at the Paris Garden Stairs or the Falcon Stairs, both short walking d
