The Globe Theatre
This simple plaque on the wall of a car park is the only reminder as to where the original Shakespeare’s Globe once stood. This original Globe Theatre was first opened in 1599 and in those times the River Thames was just a short distance away. Richard Burbage had taken the timber from his first Theatre in Shoreditch and re-erected it here.
29th June, 1613, during a performance of Henry the Eighth, the Globe Theatre went up in flames A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. It was rebuit again and was closed down by the Puritans in 1642, and was destroyed forever in 1644. This original site in Park Street was only discovered in 1989 beneath a car park, with the shape of the foundations replicated in the surface of the car park. The new Globe theatre was rebuilt to the same design as the original and now stands close to the river at Bankside.
The car park on the site of the Globe with the theatre outlined in the surface.
Rebuilt copy of the Globe, about 200 yards from the place where stood the original Globe Theatre.
Globe Exhibition - Mon, 17th November 2008
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Thu, 1st October 2009
Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition is the world's largest exhibition devoted to Shakespeare and the London in which he lived and worked. Housed beneath the reconstructed Globe Theatre on London's Bankside, the exhibition explores the remarkable story of the Globe, and brings Shakespeare's world to life using a range of interactive displays and live demonstrations.
Visit the exciting and often dangerous world of Elizabethan London where in 1599, Bankside was the entertainment centre of the capital packed with gambling dens, brothels, bear-baiting pits and theatres. Ordinary people flocked to see Shakespeare's plays and they laughed, cried, shouted abuse at the actors, ate and drank during the performances.
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