Globe Theater History
First the inside details of The Globe Theater; the theater is made up of two main stages. One stage is out in the open where there are no curtains so everyone can see into it and the second stage which is in the inside stage which helped in plays like if the play was taking place in a house then you would use the second stage. Next is the flags because the flags play a major role with the Globe Theater. They would call it the playhouse flagpole. When the flag was raised then people from miles away can see it and it would signal different things. When raised the flag showed that there will be a play in the afternoon that day. The flag will remain flying in the air until the play is over. And the theater never had specific times when they would
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In 1592 there was a plague that broke out and killed 15,003 people and caused the theaters to close down. In 1596 all plays and theaters were banned by London authorities. Because there was drinking, gambling, the plague could spread, and because the church didn’t like it. In 1598 the document for the theater to stay on the land became expired. So they had to dismantle, they had to manually move the timber from the on Theater to the new Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was made up of timber and it was first built in 1599 which is located next to the Rose and on the south side of Thames. It was designed and build for Cuthbert Burbage who was an English theatrical figure and he is the son of James Burbage who is the one that built the theater. The theater is co-owned by Burbage, his brother Robert, Will Kempe, Augustine Phillips, John Heminge, Thomas Pope, and the legend William Shakespeare. Some of the most famous plays they had in 1613 were Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Midsummer Night’s Dream and also on 29 June, 1613 while a play or show was happening there was a misfire with a cannon and surprisingly it hit the roof and landed in the Globe’s thatched roof which is a roof made of dry and dead vegetation such as straw and sedge. Because the cannon ball was so hot from being fired; it caught the whole roof on fire and so they closed down the place because of the incident. Surprisingly it took them just one year of building to
In 1592 there was a plague that broke out and killed 15,003 people and caused the theaters to close down. In 1596 all plays and theaters were banned by London authorities. Because there was drinking, gambling, the plague could spread, and because the church didn’t like it. In 1598 the document for the theater to stay on the land became expired. So they had to dismantle, they had to manually move the timber from the on Theater to the new Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was made up of timber and it was first built in 1599 which is located next to the Rose and on the south side of Thames. It was designed and build for Cuthbert Burbage who was an English theatrical figure and he is the son of James Burbage who is the one that built the theater. The theater is co-owned by Burbage, his brother Robert, Will Kempe, Augustine Phillips, John Heminge, Thomas Pope, and the legend William Shakespeare. Some of the most famous plays they had in 1613 were Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Midsummer Night’s Dream and also on 29 June, 1613 while a play or show was happening there was a misfire with a cannon and surprisingly it hit the roof and landed in the Globe’s thatched roof which is a roof made of dry and dead vegetation such as straw and sedge. Because the cannon ball was so hot from being fired; it caught the whole roof on fire and so they closed down the place because of the incident. Surprisingly it took them just one year of building to