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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark , close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company , the Lord Chamberlain's Men .
On his first visit to London in 1949, he had sought traces of the original theatre and was astonished to find only a blackened plaque on an unused brewery. He found this neglect inexplicable, and in 1970 launched the Shakespeare Globe Trust, later obtaining the building site and necessary permissions despite a hostile local council.
Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays. Like the original, it is located on the south bank of the River Thames , in Southwark , London.
An imagined Elizabethan theatre, the groundlings standing in the bottom right The pit and upper levels of the reconstruction of the Globe. A groundling was a person who visited the Red Lion, The Rose, or the Globe theatres in the early 17th century. [1] They were too poor to pay to be able to sit on one of the three levels of the theatre.
Built in 1599, this theatre was destroyed in a fire on 29 June 1613. The Globe was rebuilt by June 1614 and finally closed in 1642. The company also toured Britain, and visited France and Belgium. A modern reconstruction of the original Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", was opened in 1997 near the site of the original theatre.
Sam Wanamaker visited New Zealand in 1990, and the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand was founded in Wellington the following year by Dawn Sanders.Through it, the Wellington Shakespeare Society contributed what are now called the New Zealand Hangings, tapestries for scenery at the Globe.
British theatre director and composer Claire van Kampen has died aged 71, her husband actor Sir Mark Rylance has confirmed. Van Kampen, who was the first female musical director at both the Royal ...
For a time referred to as the Old City Hall Mall, it was officially renamed The Prince Edward Building in 2003 when Prince Edward visited the Globe Theatre. The building currently houses the theatre, small shops and a restaurant.