19 February – The Rose Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse and King Edward VI’s Coronation Procession
Posted By joelridg on February 19, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 19th February 1592, the Rose Theatre, an Elizabethan play house built by Philip Henslowe, was opened on Bankside in London.
Plays performed at the theatre included Shakespeare’s “Henry VI Part 1” and “Titus Andronicus”, Kyd’s “Spanish Tragedy”, and Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”, “The Jew of Malta” and “Tamburlaine the Great”. But, unfortunately, the Rose Theatre was abandoned by 1605.
Find out more about the Rose Theatre in this talk…
Also on this day in Tudor history, 19th February 1547, King Edward VI, son of King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, processed through the streets of London on his coronation procession.
Find out more in last year’s video…
Other articles you might be interested in:
28 January 1547 – Henry VIII dies and Edward VI becomes king
The Coronation of Edward VI
The Coronation of Edward VI – 20 February 1547
2 November – The birth of King Edward V and the beginning of the end for Catherine Howard
17 February – Love at first sight for Mary, Queen of Scots? and Edward Seymour is made Duke of Somerset
20 February 1547 – Edward VI is crowned
