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  2. Globe Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced, with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure; the Globe was not merely the old Theatre newly set up at Bankside. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] It was probably completed by the summer of 1599, possibly in time for the opening production of Henry V and its famous reference to the ...

  3. Shakespeare's Globe - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. English Renaissance theatre - Wikipedia

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    Costumes and Scripts in the Elizabethan Theatres. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. ISBN 978-0-88864-226-4. Maclennan, Ian Burns (1994). "If I were a woman": A study of the boy player in the Elizabethan public theatre (PhD thesis). Mann, David Albert (1991). The Elizabethan Player: Contemporary Stage Representation. Routledge Library Editions.

  5. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of ... paid for a performance of Richard II at the Globe Theatre, ...

  6. Groundling - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. King's Men (playing company) - Wikipedia

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    On 29 June 1613, the Globe Theatre burned down, its thatch roof set afire by squibs set off during a lavish performance of the Shakespeare/Fletcher Henry VIII. The Globe was rebuilt by the following spring, at a cost of £1400. The thatch roof was replaced with tile. During the winter of 1613–14 the company played at Court sixteen times.

  8. The Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch (in Curtain Road, part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. Built in 1576, after the Red Lion , it was the first permanent theatre built exclusively for the showing of theatrical productions in England , and its first successful one.

  9. Wikipedia : WikiProject Elizabethan theatre

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    The scope of this project covered articles relating to the Theatre and dramatic literature in England, between the years 1558 and 1642, spanning the reigns of three princes and sovereigns on the thrones, sharing the crowns: Queen Elizabeth I, King James VI and I as well as King Charles I, for some 84 years; from the year 1558, the first year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, right until the year ...