Situated on London’s Bankside, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre reconstructs the open-air playhouse where the playwright penned his greatest work. Take a look at our 10 dramatic Shakespeare's Globe Theatre facts, including...

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is the most recognizable early modern playhouse and, as a result, the subject of numerous reconstructions and reimaginings. Currently there are more than fifteen reconstructions, with more being built. The last few years have seen a rise in ‘modernized reconstructions’ (or ‘modconstructions’) across the world.

Globe Theatre study guide with sections that include: Description of the Original Globe (1599), Location, Builders, Owners, First Performances, Second Glove, Featured Authors, Shakespeare’s Acuting Company, Actors, Special Effects, Costumes, Stunts, Audiances, Other Playhouses in London, and many more.

The Globe Theatre burned to the ground on June 29, 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare’s last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could have doomed the Globe forever, but thanks to the literary immortality that Shakespeare achieved but could not have anticipated, the Globe has continually been reimagined and rebuilt, remaining a place of fascination today.

On 29 June 1613, the original Globe theatre in London, where most of William Shakespeare’s plays debuted, was destroyed by fire during a performance of All is True (known to modern audiences as Henry VIII). But what caused the fire and when was the new Globe theatre rebuilt?

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