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The Globe Theatre. By Seth Glass English 12 Angie Lewis. 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.
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The Globe Theatre By Seth Glass English 12 Angie Lewis
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
The History • Plays were performed in inn yards, private houses, and public halls by traveling theater groups like the Chamberlain’s Men, to which Shakespeare belonged • The Globe looked something like the Swan Theater (left); built in 1599 from old timbers
The History • 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 Chamberlain’s Men, one of the few companies to own their own playhouse; in 1603, they became the King’s Men • By 1608 they were operating two theatres, the Globe and the Blackfriars; the company employed up to twenty actors
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
Inside the Theatre • Scholars know some information about the dimensions of the stage but nothing very specific, such as entrances, exits, etc. • 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
The New Globe • 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
Sources • http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/converse/movies/sound_globe.swf • http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/shakespr/vrglobe/images/globe.mpg • http://www.athenalearning.com/programs/playing-shakespeare/interactive-globe-theatre • http://www.google.com/search?q=the+globe+theatre+interactive+tour&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&ei=XOyyUIL6FoO-8ATr3YG4BA&ved=0CEsQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=600 • http://www.squidoo.com/globe-theater?utm_source=google&utm_medium=imgres&utm_campaign=framebuster • http://www.william-shakespeare.info/new-globe-theatre-structure-design-dimensions.htm • http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
