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

 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

STRUCTURE

INSIDE THE THEATRE  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  Scholars know some information about the dimensions of the stage but nothing very specific, such as entrances, exits, etc.

INSIDE THE THEATRE

PLAY PRESENTATION

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

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