what plays did william shakespeare perform at the globe theater
What plays were performed at the Globe?Probably the first Shakespeare play to be performed at the Globe was Julius Caesar, in 1599. Some other Shakespeare plays first performed there are: As You Like It; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.Other playwrights wrote for the Globe, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher.What happened to the first Globe?Disaster struck the Globe in 1613. On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeareâs Henry VIII, some small cannons were fired.ichard Burbage was the companyâs leading actor. They had played at the Theatre, built by the Burbage family on land leased from a Mr Allen. In 1597, Allen refused to renew the lease. However the Burbages owned the Theatre because the lease said they owned anything built on the land.