Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe
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Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Globe Siobhan Cahill, Chris Charles, Jessica Potter, Amy Warrick
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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, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Shakespeare’s Theatre:
The Globe
Siobhan Cahill, Chris Charles, Jessica Potter, Amy Warrick
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, 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.
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.
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
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
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
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.”
WORK CITED
"Shakespeare's Globe." Shakespeare Resource
Center. Web. 9 Apr. 2011.
