Lisle's Tennis Court, and Killigrew in 1660 to Gibbon's Tennis Court in Vere Street. The Cockpit was also used in this era by the companies of John Rhodes and George Jolly. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary of several visits to the theatre between 1660 and 1663. In 1663, Killigrew's King's Company opened the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane nearby. The Cockpit was unable to compete with this relatively grand new theatre and was further hamstrung since it was shut out of the monopoly on "legitimate drama" granted to the two patent companies. There is no record of any play being mounted at the Cockpit after 1665; the eventual fate of the structure is unknown. The Phoenix was located in the middle of the area bounded today by Drury Lane, Great Queen Street, Great Wild Street, and Kemble Street. The entrance to the theatre was in Cockpit Alley, which ran from Drury Lane to Great Wild Street; the present-day Martlett Court is off Drury Lane roughly opposite where the entrance to Cockpit Alley was. Notes References Herbert Berry, "The Phoenix". In Glynne Wickham, Herbert Berry, and William Ingram, editors, English Professional Theatre, 1530–1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 623–637. Gurr, Andrew, with John Orrell (1989). Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe. New York, Routledge. Gurr, Andrew (1992). The Shakespearean Stage. Third edition, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Harbage, Alfred, et al. (1989). The Annals of English Drama 975–1700. London: Routledge. Orrell, John (1977). "Inigo Jones at The Cockpit", Muir, Kenneth ed. Shakespeare Survey 30. Page references are to the 2002 paperback edition. Thomson, Peter (1995). "Cockpit Theatre", Banham, Martin The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge University Press, p. 225. Wickham, Glynne (1972). Early English Stages 1300 to 1660: Volume Two 1576 to 1660, Part II. London: Routledge. See also A Maidenhead Well Lost External links 'Drury Lane Theatre', Old and New London: Volume 3 (1878), pp. 218–27. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Inigo Jones designs a stage Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph Quincy Adams Jr. from Project Gutenberg Former theatres in London 1616 establishments in England 1665 disestablishments Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster 17th century in London Theatres completed in 1616