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The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a British theatre company based in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. It was founded in 1879 as the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre and was renamed in 1961. The company is the largest professional theatre company in the United Kingdom, and its work is performed in London, Stratford-upon-Avon, and internationally. The RSC has been a major influence on British theatre, and has produced many notable productions of Shakespeare's plays.