 It was founded about 1600, and suppressed by the Puritan Parliament in 1642.The Fortune Theatre was contemporary with Shakespeare's Globe, The Swan and others; it stood in the parish of St Giles-without-Cripplegate, to the west of the Shoreditch locations of The Theatre and the Curtain Theatre, between Whitecross Street and Golden Lane in what is today named Fortune Street, just outside the City of London.Between 1600 and 1642, it was among the chief venues for drama in London.