Globe theater

When many people think of shakespeare they think of his plays, such as Romeo and Juliet. But without a stage to preform these plays, they are only written stories. Shakespeare's stage was the great Globe Theater in London England. It was a place where many amazing plays were preformed. The theater unfortunately, had a troubled history.

The original Globe Theater was built buy a man named Peter Street. This man disassembled another theater called "The Theatre" and moved all of the materials across the Thames River and built the Globe Theater with those materials on some marshy gardens to the south of Maiden Lane, Southwark. The Globe was constructed in a circular design( actualy meant to be similar to a coliseum) with a diameter of 100 feet and could house 3000 people with its balconies and ground level.

Shakespeare and "Lord Chamberlain's Men"(his actors) used the Theater without issue from 1599 to 1613. But a fire broke out on June 29 of 1613 while the men were preforming Henry VIII. Unfortunately, the entire theater burnt to the ground. but fortunately, the Theater was rebuilt and being used again in 1614.

Even though Shakespeare died in 1616, the theater continued to stay open and the men continued to preform up until 1642. The plays stoped being preformed because Parlaiment issued an order supressing all stage plays.

In 1644, the theater was torn down by the land owner and he set tenement houses on the land.

Shakespeare was truely a literary master and crafted some beautiful pieces of art with his writting. but with the Globe Theater to preform these wonderful works of art, they would have been nothing but dialogue. And even though the theater had a troubled history, it was still the perfect place to preform Shakespeares work.

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The Globe Theatre." The Globe Theatre. Alchin, L.K., 16 July 2005. Web. 22 May 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe_Theatre.