The Globe Theater

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The Globe Theatre
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The Globe

• Shakespeare
• owned 10.
• Located in a
• London suburb
• on the
• Thames River

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Main showcase

• Lord Chamberlains Men built the globe for
  Shakespeares productions
• Built in 1599 to
• 1644
• Wrote with the
• Globe in mind

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Intimate theater

• Roughly circular building
• Had 3 levels of covered galleries
• Had a platform stage
• Held 3,000
• people

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1613

• burned from cannon shot
• ignited the thatch
• part of a
• performance of
• Henry VIII

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Thatch
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Rebuilt

• Same location
• Opened in
• 1999
• Can attend
• plays there

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The Pit

• Groundlings stood in the pit

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Then--One penny to enter

• Stood during the performance
• No roof overhead
• Often shouted comments to the actors
• Nowcosts 7.50
• Still called groundlings

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Middle Gallery

• Then--Two-
• penny rooms
• Sat on
• Wooden benches
• Now
• costs 22.50

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Lords Gallery

• Best seats
• Highest gallery
• Todaycosts 40.00

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The Stage

• Projected into
• audience
• Usually thought
• to be octagonal
• 40 feet wide

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Heavens

• Overhead area above stage
• Painted with zodiac signs