On a patch of slightly higher ground by the river, bought by Vitoller for a ruinous sum, a new building was rising. It was growing even by night, like a mushroom - Hwel could see the cressets burning all along the scaffolding as the hired craftsmen and even some of the players themselves refused to let the mere shade of the sky interrupt their labours.
New buildings were rare in Morpork, but this was even a new type of building.
The Dysk.
A reference to the Globe Theater ... amazing. I´m so glad that I´m rereading this book. It feels like a lot of these references went over my head the first time I read this book. Like this one, which made me chuckle:
Hwel gave up. Yes, it was funny, he knew it was funny, he´d heard the laughter in his dreams. But it wasn´t right. It was like the other idea about the two clowns, one fat, one thin ... Thys ys amain Dainty Messe youe have got me into Stanleigh ... He had laughed until his chest ached, and the rest of the company had looked at him in astonishment. But in his dreams it was hilarious.
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