By: Nathan Goberdon, Chris Williams, Richie Albright, and Josh Krieger

 The Globe Theatre was octagonal in shape and rose up three stories.  The theatre was approximately 100 feet wide and was open to the air.  It held an audience of up to 3,000 people

 The stage where plays were performed on was rectangular in shape.  The stage was 28 feet deep and almost 43 feet wide.  To add to the stage effects various trap doors and apparatuses were placed overhead on the stage.

 Shakespeare and his company built the Globe Theatre in 1598, in London's Bankside district.  Along with the Swan, the Rose, and the Hope theatres it was one of the 4 major theatres in the area. Swan TheatreRose TheatreHope Theatre

 When Shakespeare's company's lease on the theatre expired, their landlord wanted the theatre to be torn down.  Shakespeare and his company then purchased property in Upper Frater Hall to convert it for their theatrical purposes.

 Those in the district complained about the production of the theatre and so the lease on the theatre had to be renegotiated.  However it seemed that in their lease of the theatre Shakespeare's company was allowed to dismantle the theatre.

 Late at night Shakespeare’s company proceeded to strip the theatre to its foundation, move the materials that they had acquired, and then construct the Globe with these materials.  This controversial activity caused one of Shakespeare’s company to be sued by Giles Allen (the landlord of the ransacked theatre); the court ruled in favor of Shakespeare and his group and so they were allowed to keep the Globe.

 Over the next decade the Globe housed some of Shakespeare’s greatest works.  The theatre was accidently burned to the ground in 1613; a new Globe theatre was then built in its place.  The Globe continued to operate until 1642 when it was closed down by the Puritans.

 For the next 352 years knowledge of the Globe remained in the shadows.  In 1989 the foundations of where the Globe once stood were rediscovered.  It was then decided to erect a modern version of the prestigious theatre. Finding of the foundation ====>

 In 1993 the construction of the new Globe started near its predecessor.  Construction of the theatre was finished in  The queen officially reopened the theatre on the 12 th of June in the following year with a production of the play “Henry V.” (Clapping was for the final slide)

 "Shakespeare's Globe." Shakespeare Resource Center. Web. 02 Apr