The Globe Theatre

Watching a play at the Globe

• Market stalls outside the Theatre

• Groundlings or Stinkards

• Stood in a pit with 500 others

• Really enjoyed plays

• Missed work, paid a tenth of their wages, stood for up to three hours.

Watching a play at the Globe

• Upper class nobles-

• Could afford more expensive tickets

• Could pay to sit in the stage

• The Globe held a maximum of 1500

• 3000 watched the plays

Shakespearian actors

• Actors were treated better when theatres were built

• Skills required:• Sword fighting, falling, overacting, carrying

your voice, memory.• Cue acting• Cue scripting• Shakespeare acted in his own plays• Young boys played female roles

Building the Globe Theatre

• The Theatre

• Lord Chamberlain’s men

• Labourers, painters, thatchers, joiners, carpenters and plasterers.

• Stone, nails, thatch, plaster and timber

• Dr. John Dee

The Globe Closing down

• Closed 1614• Not allowed to perform during Lent• Closed on a Thursday• Closed during Winter• 1608 plague• Puritans• Puritans lost power in 1660• Globe never rebuilt

The History of the Globe

• Lord Chamberlain’s Men

• The Globe Alight

• 29 June 1613

• Cuthbert Burbage, Richard Burbage, John Heminges, Thomas Pope, Augustine Philips and William Shakespeare.

The Globe lives on!

• Sam Wanamaker

• 1949

• 1970 founded Shakespeare’s Globe Trust

• Wanamaker died on 18th December 1993

• Shakespeare’s Globe opened in 1997

Quiz

• Who was the man who brought back the Globe Theatre?

• What was the name of the religious group that closed the Globe theatre?

• How many people watched the plays?• Other than writing the plays what else did

William Shakespeare do at the Globe Theatre?• How many skills that actors would of needed can

you name.

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