This detail from Wenceslas Hollar's etching Long View of London, showing the theater district on the south bank and, across the Thames, the location of the Blackfriars. Hollar has reversed the names of the two theaters: what he calls Bear Baiting is the Globe, and vice-versa. (Bear baiting was a gambling sport in which a bear tied to a stake was set on by dogs; the fight was to the death.