The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon was a Victorian medieval fantasy, with a half-timbered attic resting on corbelled brickwork, crowned by a steep chateau roof. Designed by the architect Dogshun and Unsworth for the New Shakespeare Company and completed in 1879, it could serve as a somewhat anachronistic setting for the battle of Agincourt in Shakespeare's Henry V. Its mock-Elizabethan interior hastened the spread of the fire that gutted the theatre in 1926, forcing the company to relocate to a local cinema until, in 1932, the architect Elisabeth Scott reversed into its remains with an Art Deco juggernaut, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST).
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