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History• Built in 1576• Located in London• Where Shakespeare performed and
wrote all his plays• Took 6 months to build• The theatre was also used for gambling
not just plays• Was built by Peter Smith• Bubonic Plague was a terrible outbreak
it forced the theatre to closed 4 different times and killed 20,000 people
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History• The audience would pay 1 penny to
stand in the "pit" (the area around the stage)
• The wealthy people would have a chair to watch the play
• The plays were performed in the afternoon because electric lighting didn't exist yet
• The plays were open to men and woman but woman would wear masks to disguise their face
• When the Bubonic Plague was an outbreak Shakespeare would travel home to Stratford and write more plays while he had a break from performing
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What Happened?• London's authorities banned the public
presentation of plays and all theaters within the city limits of London.
• All theaters located in the City were told to move to the South side of the River Thames.
• The Globe then was not in use until 1613, when on June 29 a fire broke out
• The roof caught on fire and burned to the ground
• The casualties were never known
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Reconstruction the the globe theater
• new theater was built in the same location only 350 years later (1614)
• Scholars and architects looked information regarding the old building to reconstruct a replica of the old theatre.
• size of site: 1.2 acre for the project
• the stage is still made of hard waxed wood with all he trap door effects as the old stage
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Before and after the fire
Buring theater The new and improved
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Pictures of the old Globe theater