GLOBE THEATREAutumn Best, dakota book, Lesly Palmer

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History• Built in 1576• Located in London• Where Shakespeare performed and

wrote all his plays• Took 6 months to build• The theatre was also used for gambling

not just plays• Was built by Peter Smith• Bubonic Plague was a terrible outbreak

it forced the theatre to closed 4 different times and killed 20,000 people

History•  The audience would pay 1 penny to

stand in the "pit" (the area around the stage)

• The wealthy people would have a chair to watch the play

• The plays were performed in the afternoon because electric lighting didn't exist yet

•  The plays were open to men and woman but woman would wear masks to disguise their face

•  When the Bubonic Plague was an outbreak Shakespeare would travel home to Stratford and write more plays while he had a break from performing 

What Happened?• London's authorities banned the public

presentation of plays  and all theaters within the city limits of London. 

• All theaters located in the City were told to move to the South side of the River Thames. 

• The Globe then was not in use until 1613, when on June 29 a fire broke out 

• The roof caught on fire and burned to the ground

• The casualties were never known

Reconstruction the the globe theater 

• new theater was built in the same location only 350 years later (1614)

• Scholars and architects looked information regarding the old building to reconstruct a replica of the old theatre.

• size of site: 1.2 acre for the project

• the stage is still made of hard waxed wood with all he trap door effects as the old stage

           Before and after the fire 

Buring theater The new and improved 

Pictures of the old Globe theater