Public spaces include the large exhibition gallery, a gift shop, and the Elizabethan theatre.
In a recent conversation at the new property, the director said she had always wanted an Elizabethan theater.
Dudley was a principal patron of the arts, literature, and the Elizabethan theatre.
Below, in the manner of an Elizabethan theater, three curving galleries are visible at once.
Attempts to raise funds to rebuild the town's Elizabethan theatre have so far been unsuccessful.
The boy player has been a popular subject in literary, theatrical and cinematic representations of the Elizabethan theatre.
Elizabethan theaters were either circular or made of six, seven, or eight sides.
Over six days last week, 48 schools presented scenes from Shakespeare plays in the library's Elizabethan theater.
And the Elizabethan theater highlighted the spoken word.
Jackson pointed out that these two examples are the only recorded examples in all of Elizabethan theatre.