THE GLOBE THEATRE By Seth Glass English 12 Angie Lewis
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THE HISTORY 1599: the Globe Theatre is opened on Bankside - to
the South of London William Shakespeare is a co-owner of the Globe
and a writer of plays Globe Theater is a huge success. Winter
performances are staged in indoor theaters called Playhouses
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Plays were performed in inn yards, private houses, and public
halls by traveling theater groups like the Chamberlains Men, to
which Shakespeare belonged The Globe looked something like the Swan
Theater (left); built in 1599 from old timbers THE HISTORY
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1590 to 1642 : approximately twenty companies of actors in
London (although only four or five played in town at one time), and
more than a hundred provincial troupes 1603: the Bubonic Plague
(The Black Death) hits London killing 33,000 people The usual
pattern of the companies was to play in London in the winter and
spring and to travel in the summer when plague ravaged the city
Shakespeare's company was the Lord Chamberlains Men, one of the few
companies to own their own playhouse; in 1603, they became the
Kings Men By 1608 they were operating two theatres, the Globe and
the Blackfriars; the company employed up to twenty actors
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THE HISTORY 1603: the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death) hits
London killing 33,000 people All theatres are closed until the
Plague is over June 29, 1613: a huge fire at the Globe Theatre. It
was started by the firing of a cannon during one of the plays!
1614: the Globe Theatre was rebuilt on original foundations but
this time the roof was tiled, not thatched April 25, 1616: William
Shakespeare dies
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STRUCTURE
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INSIDE THE THEATRE Music was important to set the mood in the
plays: lutes, recorders and viols were courtly; oboes (hautboys)
were mysterious; the trumpet, drum and fife were warlike The
audience ranged from the very lower classes to royalty, from
scholars to the illiterate Scholars know some information about the
dimensions of the stage but nothing very specific, such as
entrances, exits, etc.
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INSIDE THE THEATRE
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PLAY PRESENTATION
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THE NEW GLOBE
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Foundations of the Globe were rediscovered in 1989 By the
vision of the late Sam Wanamaker, workers began construction in
1993 on the new theatre near the site of the original. Globe
Theatre was completed in 1996 Queen Elizabeth II officially opened
the theatre on June 12, 1997 with a production of Henry V. Faithful
a reproduction as possible to the Elizabethan model, Seats 1,500
people between the galleries and the "groundlings." In its initial
1997 season, the theatre attracted 210,000 patrons