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"THE GLOBE THEATRE" by Derek Foltz Period 8 2010

There always had to be a way for people to be entertained. But in the late 1500s, there was little entertainment. Shakespeare, a famous poet at the time, helped resolve this problem. He made a theatre for plays wrote for poems to be held in. But this wasn't any theater. This was The Globe Theatre. Not only were plays held there, but big events were held there too. The idea of this theater was new to everyone that used it. It was one of the newest and greatest ideas of entertainment back then. The Theatre mosly used Shakespeare's best plays from his best poems. (Millington 3-4) The Globe Theatre (best known as "The Theatre") was built in 1599. The people who built it were both brothers. Their names were Richard and Cuthbert Burbage. It took a long time for it to be built. What had happend is they had a small theater before. But in the winter of 1598, because of an increase in rent, the lease on the very first theater was due to expire so it had to go. They took each and every piece of the first theatre after torn down, then they shipped the pieces across the Thames River, and built the Globe Theater on the South Bank. The theatre was completely built by 1599. (Dobbins Springfield.k12) Shortly after it was built, it was destroyed. It was burned down from a spark from a cannon in one of Shakespeare's plays. The spark of the cannon hit a curtin and it lit the theatre on fire which was the reason why the theatre was burnt down. (Millington 41) After the first Globe Theatre was destroyed, they built a new one. They couldn't find out what the first theatre looked like because there wasn't enough evidence left. (Olsen, 621) After they built the second theatre, it remained as the last Globe Theatre that showed all of Shakespeare's plays.

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