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Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe

Siobhan Cahill, Chris Charles, Jessica Potter, Amy Warrick. Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe . The Idea. Shakespeare’s theatre company erected the storied Globe Theatre in 1598 in London’s Bankside district. About the Globe . Open-air, octagonal amphitheater,

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Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe

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  1. Siobhan Cahill, Chris Charles, Jessica Potter, Amy Warrick Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe

  2. The Idea • Shakespeare’s theatre company erected the storied Globe Theatre in 1598 in London’s Bankside district

  3. About the Globe • Open-air, octagonal amphitheater, three stories high. • Diameter of approx. 100 feet. • Seating capacity of up to 3,000 spectators. • Rectangular stage that housed trap doors in its flooring and primitive rigging overhead for various stage effects.

  4. 1597 • Shakespeare’s theatre company technically owned the Theatre, but their lease on the land expired. • Giles Allen desired to tear the Theatre down. • This led the company to purchase property at Blackfriars in Upper Frater Hall and set about converting it for theatrical use.

  5. 1598 • Autumn • Cuthbert Burbage tried to renegotiate the lease with Giles Allen • Allen vowed to put the wood/timber of the building “to better use.” • Richard and Cuthbert set in motion a plan of their own to dismantle the building themselves • Winter • Allen left London • The Burbage brothers, their chief carpenter, and workmen assembled at the Theatre and stripped it down to its foundation. • They moved the materials across the Thames to Bankside and used them to construct the Globe

  6. 1613 - 1644 • 1613 • The original Globe Theatre burns to the ground after a cannon is shot during a performance of Henry VIII. The cannon ignited the thatched roof of the gallery. • The new Globe was completed on the foundations of it’s predecessor before Shakespeare died. • Continued operating until 1642 • 1642 • Puritans close down the Globe • 1644 • Puritans burned the building to build tenements upon the premises. • The Globe would remain a ghost for the next 352 years

  7. 1989 - 1997 • 1989 • The foundations of the Globe were rediscovered. • New interest in an attempt to erect a modern version of the amphitheater. • 1993 • Workers, led by the vision of Sam Wanamaker, began construction of the new theatre near the site of the original. • 1996 • The latest Globe Theatre is completed

  8. 1989 – 1997 (con’t) • 1997 • Queen Elizabeth officially opens the theatre on June 12, 1997 with a production of Henry V. • Initial season attracts 210,000 patrons. The latest Globe is as faithful a reproduction as possible to the Elizabethan model. It seats 1,500 people between galleries and the “groundlings.”

  9. WORK CITED "Shakespeare's Globe." Shakespeare Resource Center. Web. 9 Apr. 2011.

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