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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. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.
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.
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The nearby Globe Theatre (1599) was larger, at 100 feet (30 metres). Other evidence for the round shape is a line in Shakespeare's Henry V which calls the building "this wooden O", and several rough woodcut illustrations of the city of London. Recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
The reasoning behind the location and setting of Shakespeare's plays is a subject of plenty of scholarly debate - one academic has claimed that in some plays the setting is an actor in itself. [2] Many of the tragedies are believed to be set far off either physically or in King Lear's case: temporally , potentially to present a sense of ...
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an indoor theatre forming part of the Shakespeare's Globe complex, along with the recreated Globe Theatre on Bankside in Southwark, London.. Built by making use of 17th-century plans for an indoor English theatre, the playhouse recalls the layout and style of the Blackfriars Theatre (which also existed in Shakespeare's time), although it is not an exact reconstru
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Shakespeare Theatre could refer to: American Shakespeare Center, Staunton Virginia; American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, Connecticut; Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, D.C. Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre. Its modern reconstruction, Shakespeare ...