2-698-985 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Interior of the Duke's Theatre', c1673, (1897). Performance of the The Empress of Morocco, at Duke's Theatre in London. The 'Duke's House', (later Duke's Theatre), was originally a tennis court, built in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which Sir William Davenant converted into a performance space. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]