Bethlem Royal Hospital
（重定向自Bethlem）
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![Plan of the first Bethlem.[1]](/Images/godic/202412/24/Plan_of_the_first_Bethlem_Hospital3737.png")
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![Curtain Theatre circa 1600 (cylindrical building in the background). Some authorities believe this to be a depiction of The Theatre, the other Elizabethan theatre at Shoreditch in west Moorfields. Both playhouses were a stone's throw away from the original Bethlem site at Bishopsgate.](/Images/godic/202412/24/Curtain_Theatre3738.jpg")
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London, United Kingdom. Its infamous history has inspired several horror books, films and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. It has moved three times from its original location, and is Europe's first and oldest institution to specialise in mental illnesses.