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3.  Shakespeare’s theatre company erected the storied Globe Theatre in 1598 in London’s Bankside district

4.  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.

5.  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.

6.  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

7.  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

8.  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

9.  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.”

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