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The second Globe, preliminary sketch (c. 1638) for Hollar's 1647 Long View of London. ... The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare.
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 exterior of the Swan Theatre: a redrawing of a detail from a panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher A 1595 sketch of a performance in progress on the thrust stage of the Swan The Swan is labelled in the bottom centre of this London street map. Enlarge The Manor of Paris Gardens, Bankside, showing the location of The Swan. Enlarge
In 1608 John Collet, Nicholas Brend's remaining trustee, transferred his interest in the Globe and the other properties to John Bodley, who collected the rents and 'effectively owned the Globe' [12] until Matthew Brend came of age on 6 February 1621. [13] Sketch by Wenceslas Hollar of second Globe Theatre
Sketch by Wenceslas Hollar of second Globe Theatre. Three months after his father's death, Nicholas Brend leased part of his father's Southwark property to Cuthbert Burbage, Richard Burbage, William Shakespeare, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, John Heminges, and William Kempe.
One is that he worked from a combination of maps and map-views with a various dates, so the engraving uses a variety of viewpoints. As a result, it contains some inaccuracies: in particular, Visscher shows the Globe Theatre as octagonal, whereas archaeological evidence shows it was 20-sided, and the river is straightened to simplify the view.
As pageant wagons evolved into Elizabethan theatre, many of that era's works, including those of Shakespeare, were performed on theatre with an open thrust stage, such as those of the Globe Theatre. The thrust stage was generally out of use for centuries, and was resurrected by Orson Welles when he staged Doctor Faustus for the Federal Theatre ...
The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, originally the Globe Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 205 West 46th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States. Opened in 1910, the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Beaux-Arts style for Charles Dillingham .