Globe Theatre - wikipedia Globe Theatre This article is about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare. For the more modern reconstruction in London, see Shakespeare 's Globe. For other uses, see Globe Theatre ( disambiguation ). The Globe Theatre The second Globe, preliminary sketch ( c. 1638 ) for Hollar 's 1647 Long View of London Address Maiden Lane ( now Park Street ) Southwark London England Coordinates 51 ° 30 ′ 24 '' N 0 ° 05 ′ 42 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.506779 ° N 0.094935 ° W ﻿ / 51.506779 ; - 0.094935 Coordinates : 51 ° 30 ′ 24 '' N 0 ° 05 ′ 42 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 51.506779 ° N 0.094935 ° W ﻿ / 51.506779 ; - 0.094935 Designation Destroyed by the Puritans Type Elizabethan theatre Construction Opened 1599 Closed 1642 Rebuilt 1614 The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare 's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain 's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son, Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed by an Ordinance issued on 6 September 1642. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named `` Shakespeare 's Globe '', opened in 1997 approximately 750 feet ( 230 m ) from the site of the original theatre. From 1909, the current Gielgud Theatre was called `` Globe Theatre '', until it was renamed ( in honour of John Gielgud ) in 1994. Contents 1 Locations 2 History 3 Layout 4 Name 5 Notes 6 References 7 External links Locations Examination of old property records has identified the plot of land occupied by the Globe as extending from the west side of modern - day Southwark Bridge Road eastwards as far as Porter Street and from Park Street southwards as far as the back of Gatehouse Square. However, the precise location of the building remained unknown until a small part of the foundations, including one original pier base, was discovered in 1989 beneath the car park at the rear of Anchor Terrace on Park Street. The shape of the foundations is now replicated on the surface. As the majority of the foundations lies beneath 67 -- 70 Anchor Terrace, a listed building, no further excavations have been permitted. History Second Globe Theatre, detail from Hollar 's View of London, 1647. Hollar sketched the building from life ( see top ), but only later assembled the drawings into this View ; he mislabelled his images of The Globe and the nearby bear - baiting enclosure. Here the correct label has been restored. The small building to the left supplied food - and ale - sellers at the theatre. The Globe Theatre is shown at the bottom centre of this London street map Position on modern street plan Site of the Globe Theatre, from Park Street ; the dark line in the centre marks the foundation line. The white wall beyond is the rear of Anchor Terrace. The Globe was owned by actors who were also shareholders in the Lord Chamberlain 's Men. Two of the six Globe shareholders, Richard Burbage and his brother Cuthbert Burbage, owned double shares of the whole, or 25 % each ; the other four men, Shakespeare, John Heminges, Augustine Phillips, and Thomas Pope, owned a single share, or 12.5 %. ( Originally William Kempe was intended to be the seventh partner, but he sold out his share to the four minority sharers, leaving them with more than the originally planned 10 % ). These initial proportions changed over time as new sharers were added. Shakespeare 's share diminished from 1 / 8 to 1 / 14, or roughly 7 %, over the course of his career. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage 's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. The Burbages originally had a 21 - year lease of the site on which the theatre was built but owned the building outright. However, the landlord, Giles Allen, claimed that the building had become his with the expiry of the lease. On 28 December 1598, while Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home, carpenter Peter Street, supported by the players and their friends, dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it to Street 's waterfront warehouse near Bridewell. With the onset of more favourable weather in the following spring, the material was ferried over the Thames to reconstruct it as The Globe on some marshy gardens to the south of Maiden Lane, Southwark. While only a hundred yards from the congested shore of the Thames, the piece of land was situated close by an area of farmland and open fields. It was poorly drained and, notwithstanding its distance from the river, was liable to flooding at times of particularly high tide ; a `` wharf '' ( bank ) of raised earth with timber revetments had to be created to carry the building above the flood level. The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced, with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure ; the Globe was not merely the old Theatre newly set up at Bankside. It was probably completed by the summer of 1599, possibly in time for the opening production of Henry V and its famous reference to the performance crammed within a `` wooden O ''. Dover Wilson, however, defers the opening date until September 1599, taking the `` wooden O '' reference to be disparaging and thus unlikely to be used in the Globe 's inaugural staging. He suggests that a Swiss tourist 's account of a performance of Julius Caesar witnessed on 21 September 1599 describes the more likely first production. The first performance for which a firm record remains was Jonson 's Every Man out of His Humour -- with its first scene welcoming the `` gracious and kind spectators '' -- at the end of the year. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year. Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was pulled down in 1644 -- 45 ; the commonly cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 has been identified as a probable forgery -- to make room for tenements. A modern reconstruction of the theatre, named `` Shakespeare 's Globe '', opened in 1997, with a production of Henry V. It is an academic approximation of the original design, based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings, and is located approximately 750 feet ( 230 m ) from the site of the original theatre. In February 2016, a temporary full - scale replica of the Second Globe Theatre, called the Pop - up Globe and based on scholarly reanalyses of the surviving evidence for the 1614 building, opened in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, and presented a three - month season of Shakespeare 's plays performed by a house company and by visiting local production groups. It was reconstructed in a second Auckland location to host a three - month 2017 season. Layout Conjectural reconstruction of the Globe theatre by C. Walter Hodges based on archeological and documentary evidence The Globe 's actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries. The evidence suggests that it was a three - storey, open - air amphitheatre approximately 100 feet ( 30 m ) in diameter that could house up to 3,000 spectators. The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar 's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his etched Long View of London from Bankside in 1647. However, in 1988 -- 89, the uncovering of a small part of the Globe 's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 sides. At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit, ( or, harking back to the old inn - yards, yard ) where, for a penny, people ( the `` groundlings '' ) would stand on the rush - strewn earthen floor to watch the performance. During the excavation of the Globe in 1989 a layer of nutshells was found, pressed into the dirt flooring so as to form a new surface layer. Vertically around the yard were three levels of stadium - style seats, which were more expensive than standing room. A rectangular stage platform, also known as an apron stage, thrust out into the middle of the open - air yard. The stage measured approximately 43 feet ( 13.1 m ) in width, 27 feet ( 8.2 m ) in depth and was raised about 5 feet ( 1.5 m ) off the ground. On this stage, there was a trap door for use by performers to enter from the `` cellarage '' area beneath the stage. The back wall of the stage had two or three doors on the main level, with a curtained inner stage in the centre ( although not all scholars agree about the existence of this supposed `` inner below '' ), and a balcony above it. The doors entered into the `` tiring house '' ( backstage area ) where the actors dressed and awaited their entrances. The floors above may have been used as storage for costumes and props and management offices. The balcony housed the musicians and could also be used for scenes requiring an upper space, such as the balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet. Rush matting covered the stage, although this may only have been used if the setting of the play demanded it. Large columns on either side of the stage supported a roof over the rear portion of the stage. The ceiling under this roof was called the `` heavens, '' and was painted with clouds and the sky. A trap door in the heavens enabled performers to descend using some form of rope and harness. The stage was set in the south - east corner of the building, so as to be in shade during afternoon performances in Summer. Name The name of the Globe supposedly alludes to the Latin tag totus mundus agit histrionem, in turn derived from quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem -- `` because all the world is a playground '' -- from Petronius, which had wide circulation in England in the Burbages ' time. Totus mundus agit histrionem was, according to this explanation, therefore adopted as the theatre 's motto. Another allusion, familiar to the contemporary theatre - goer, would have been to Teatrum Mundi, a meditation by the twelfth - century classicist and philosopher John of Salisbury, in his Policraticus, book three. In either case, there would have been a familiar understanding of the classical derivation without the adoption of a formal motto. It seems likely that the link between the supposed motto and the Globe was made only later, originating with the industrious early Shakespeare biographer William Oldys, who claimed as his source a private manuscript to which he once had access. This was repeated in good faith by his literary executor George Steevens, but the tale is now thought `` suspicious ''. Notes ^ Jump up to : Cooper, Tarnya, ed. ( 2006 ). `` A view from St Mary Overy, Southwark, looking towards Westminster, c. 1638 ''. Searching for Shakespeare. London : National Portrait Gallery. pp. 92 -- 93. ISBN 978 - 0 - 300 - 11611 - 3. Jump up ^ Wilson, Ian ( 1993 ). Shakespeare the Evidence. London : Headline. xiii. ISBN 0 - 7472 - 0582 - 5. Jump up ^ Bowsher and Miller ( 2009 : 87 ) Jump up ^ Nagler 1958, p. 8. Jump up ^ Encyclopædia Britannica 1998 edition. ^ Jump up to : Measured using Google earth Jump up ^ Mulryne ; Shewring ( 1997 : 69 ) Jump up ^ Braines, William ( 1924 ). The site of the Globe Playhouse Southwark ( 2 ed. ). London : Hodder and Stoughton. OCLC 3157657. ^ Jump up to : Simon McCudden ' The Discovery of The Globe Jump up ^ Bowsher and Miller ( 2009 : 4 ) Jump up ^ Bowsher ; Miller ( 2009 : 112 ) Jump up ^ Location taken from Bowsher ; Miller ( 2009 : 107 ) Jump up ^ Gurr ( 1991 : 45 -- 46 ) Jump up ^ Schoenbaum, pp. 648 -- 9. Jump up ^ Shapiro, James ( 2005 ). 1599 -- a year in the life of William Shakespeare. London : Faber and Faber. p. 7. ISBN 0 - 571 - 21480 - 0. Jump up ^ Shapiro ( 2005 : 122 -- 3 ; 129 ) ^ Jump up to : Bowsher and Miller ( 2009 : 90 ) Jump up ^ Allen 's court proceedings against Street and the Burbages noted that the timber from The Theatre was `` sett up... in an other forme '' at Bankside. Quoted in Bowsher and Miller ( 2009 : 90 ) Jump up ^ Adams, John Cranford ( 1961 ). The Globe Playhouse. Its design and equipment ( 2 ed. ). London : John Constable. OCLC 556737149. Jump up ^ Bate, Jonathan ; Rasmussen, Eric ( 2007 ). William Shakespeare Complete Works. London : Macmillan. p. 1030. ISBN 978 - 0 - 230 - 00350 - 7. Jump up ^ Dover Wilson, John ( 1968 ). The Works of Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar. Cambridge New Shakespeare. Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press. p. ix. ISBN 0 - 521 - 09482 - 8. Jump up ^ Stern, Tiffany ( 2010 ). `` The Globe Theatre and the open - air amphitheatres ''. In Sanders, Julie. Ben Jonson in Context. Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press. p. 113. ISBN 0 - 521 - 89571 - 5. ^ Jump up to : Wotton, Henry ( 2 July 1613 ). `` Letters of Wotton ''. In Smith, Logan Pearsall. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton. Two. Oxford, England : Clarendon Press. pp. 32 -- 33. Jump up ^ Mulryne ; Shewring ( 1997 : 75 ) Jump up ^ Martin, Douglas. `` John Orrell, 68, Historian On New Globe Theater, Dies '', The New York Times, 28 September 2003, accessed 19 December 2012 Jump up ^ Awde, Nick. `` Shakespeare 's Other Home in the Southern Hemisphere ''. thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2016. Jump up ^ `` Pop - up Globe to rise in the gardens at Ellerslie Racecourse ''. Stuff. Fairfax NZ Ltd. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2017. Jump up ^ Egan 1999, pp. 1 -- 16 Jump up ^ Orrell 1989 Jump up ^ Mulryne ; Shewring ( 1997 : 37 ; 44 ) Jump up ^ Egan 2004, pp. 5.1 -- 22 Jump up ^ Britannica Student : The Theater past to present > Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theater Jump up ^ Dekker, Thomas ( 1609 ), reprinted 1907, ISBN 0 - 7812 - 7199 - 1. The Gull 's Hornbook : `` the stage... will bring you to most perfect light... though the scarecrows in the yard hoot at you ''. Jump up ^ Dekker ( 1609 ) Jump up ^ Nagler 1958, pp. 23 -- 24. Jump up ^ Kuritz, Paul ( 1988 ). The making of theatre history. Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice Hall. pp. 189 -- 191. ISBN 0 - 13 - 547861 - 8. Jump up ^ from attiring -- dressing : `` tiring, n. ''. Oxford English Dictionary ( 2 ed. ). Oxford, England : Oxford University Press. 1989. Jump up ^ Bowsher and Miller ( 2009 : 136 -- 137 ) Jump up ^ Mulryne ; Shewring ( 1997 : 139 ) Jump up ^ Mulryne ; Shewring ( 1997 : 166 ) Jump up ^ Egan, Gabriel ( 2015 ). `` Lighting ''. In Wells, Stanley. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare ( 2 ed. ). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198708735. Jump up ^ Ingleby, Clement Mansfield ; Toulmin Smith, Lucy ; Furnival, Frederick ( 1909 ). Monro, John, ed. The Shakespere allusion - book : a collection of allusions to Shakespere from 1591 to 1700. 2. London : Chatto and Windus. p. 373. OCLC 603995070. ^ Jump up to : Gillies, John ( 1994 ). Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference. Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press. p. 76. ISBN 9780521417198. Jump up ^ Stern, Tiffany ( 1997 ). `` Was ' Totus mundus agit histrionem ' ever the motto of the Globe Theatre ? ''. Theatre Notebook. The Society for Theatre Research. 51 ( 3 ) : 121. ISSN 0040 - 5523. Jump up ^ Egan, Gabriel ( 2001 ). `` Globe theatre ''. In Dobson, Michael ; Wells, Stanley. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford, England : Oxford University Press. p. 166. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19280614 - 7. References Bowsher, Julian ; Miller, Pat ( 2009 ). The Rose and the Globe -- playhouses of Shakespeare 's Bankside, Southwark. Museum of London. ISBN 978 - 1 - 901992 - 85 - 4. Egan, Gabriel ( 1999 ). `` Reconstructions of The Globe : A Retrospective '' ( PDF ). Shakespeare Survey. Shakespeare Survey. 52 ( 1 ) : 1 -- 16. doi : 10.1017 / CCOL0521660742. 001. ISBN 0 - 521 - 66074 - 2. Retrieved 25 July 2007. Egan, Gabriel ( 2004 ). `` The 1599 Globe and its modern replica : Virtual Reality modelling of the archaeological and pictorial evidence ''. Early Modern Literary Studies. 13 : 5.1 -- 22. ISSN 1201 - 2459. Retrieved 25 July 2007. Gurr, Andrew ( 1991 ). The Shakespearean Stage 1574 -- 1642. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Press. ISBN 0 - 521 - 42240 - X. Mulryne, J. R ; Shewring, Margaret ( 1997 ). Shakespeare 's Globe Rebuilt. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0 - 521 - 59988 - 1. Nagler, A.M. ( 1958 ). Shakespeare 's Stage. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press. ISBN 0 - 300 - 02689 - 7. Orrell, John ( 1989 ). `` Reconstructing Shakespeare 's Globe ''. History Trails. University of Alberta. Retrieved 10 December 2007. Schoenbaum, Samuel ( 1991 ). Shakespeare 's Lives. Oxford : Clarendon Press. ISBN 0 - 19 - 818618 - 5. External links London portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Globe Theatre, Southwark. Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr. from Project Gutenberg Shakespeare 's Globe The 1996 reconstruction A reconstruction of the second Globe The structure of the Globe by extrapolation from Hollar 's sketch. University of Sydney. 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Question: who paid for the building of the original globe theatre
Answer: the Lord Chamberlain's Men