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The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, ... It was pulled down in 1644–45 ...
The original globe theatre was built in 1599 by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, destroyed by a fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern Globe Theatre is an academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings.
It has been claimed, on the basis of a document at the Folger Shakespeare Library, that immediately upon the expiration of the lease on Lady Day 1644, i.e. 25 March 1644, Sir Matthew Brend took possession of the Globe and had it pulled down. However, as Berry points out, the extant documents state that the lease was to expire on 25 December ...
Print, based on Hollar's 1644 Long View of London, of the 1614 second Globe Theatre. From 1594 the players performed at The Theatre, in Shoreditch.Problems with the landlord caused the company to move to the nearby Curtain Theatre in 1597.
The Globe opened in autumn 1599, with Julius Caesar one of the first plays staged. Most of Shakespeare's greatest post-1599 plays were written for the Globe, including Hamlet, Othello and King Lear. [11] Reconstructed Globe theatre London. The Globe, like London's other open-roofed public theatres, employed a thrust-stage, covered by a cloth ...
April 15 – The second Globe Theatre is demolished by the Puritan government to make room for housing. [1]November 23 – The publication in London of Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England.
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
The modern reconstructed Globe Theatre. Burbage was performing on the stage of the original structure in the late 16th-early 17th centuries. Richard Burbage was probably acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, then joining Lord Strange's Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1593, but most famously he was the star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's ...