"Conjectural reconstruction of the Globe theatre based on archaeological and documentary evidence," By C. Walter Hodges of the Folger Shakespeare Library (CC By SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
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"The Globe Theatre you see today in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned.
We think that the first play Shakespeare wrote for the original Globe was Julius Caesar in spring 1599. Later that year he also wrote As You Like It and made a start on Hamlet. Over the next fourteen years Shakespeare wrote some of his greatest plays, including Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Other playwrights wrote for the Globe during this time too, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher.
In 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII (co-written with Fletcher), a mis-fired prop canon caused the thatch roof to catch fire. The entire theatre burnt down within two hours, according to eyewitness reports (miraculously, no one was killed). The company rebuilt the Globe in a year – with a tiled roof. The second Globe operated until it was closed down by parliamentary decree in 1642.
In 1609 Shakespeare’s company started performing in the indoor Blackfriars playhouse as well as the Globe. It was here that Shakespeare conceived his final great plays, including The Tempest.
The current Globe Theatre opened in 1997, after many years of campaigning by the founder of the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, Sam Wanamaker."
-- Globe Theatre Trust (click on this link to read more)
Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609. by
Introduction -- The Repertory -- The Dramaturgy -- Premises for a Study of Shakespearean Dramatic Form -- Form and Function in the Finales of the Globe Plays -- The Nature and Form of the "Climax" in the Globe Plays -- Structural Patterns in the Dramatic Narrative -- Scene Structure in Shakespeare -- Dramatic Unity in the Globe Plays -- The Stage -- Localization in Shakespeare's Globe Plays -- The Parts of the Stage -- The Design of the Stage -- The Acting -- The Relation of Tudor Rhetoric to Elizabethan Acting -- The Influence of Theatrical Traditions upon Elizabethan Acting -- The Effect of Playing Conditions upon Elizabethan Acting -- Acting and the Elizabethan View of Human Behavior -- Decorum -- Motivation -- Passion -- The Effect of the Globe Plays upon Acting -- The Staging -- Stage Illusion at the Globe Playhouse -- Stage Grouping at the Globe Playhouse -- Actors' Entrances upon the Globe Stage -- Recurrent Patterns in Staging -- The Staging of the Finales -- The Style -- Index to the Globe Plays.
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