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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.
The Globe Restored: A Study of the Elizabethan Theatre (1935) [4] Columbus Sails (1939) Shakespeare and the Players (1948) Shakespeare's Theatre (1964) The Namesake: A Story of King Alfred (1964) Magna Carta (1966) The Norman Conquest (1966) The Marsh King: A Story of King Alfred (1967, sequel to The Namesake) The Spanish Armada (1967)
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 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
London's iconic Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre has said it is facing closure because the coronavirus pandemic has had a "devastating" impact on its finances. In a stark submission to a UK ...
John Orrell (December 31, 1934 – September 16, 2003) was a British author, theatre historian, and English professor at the University of Alberta.The New York Times described him as the "historian whose intellectual detective work laid the groundwork for the 1997 re-creation of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theater."
A portrait of William Shakespeare and a copy of a speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" were sent to the edge of space as part of a short film series marking 400 years since the first volume of ...