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The Globe Theater - Online Term Paper

The Globe Theater

They are the Bleacher creatures of Section 39. The best fans in NY history....They are extremely famous and will rule all right visitors. The original Globe opened in 1599, burned down in 1613, was immediately rebuilt. It was closed in 1642. Now, 200 yards from its original site, after almost 400 years, Shakespeare's Globe has been opened to the public again: the rebuilt playhouse was officially inaugurated by Her Majesty the Queen on Thursday 12 June 1997, its Opening Season ran from 29 May to 21 September 1997, and every summer it now offers performances of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries on the type of stage they were written for, many in authentic costumes. This website ...

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the Globe, whether on paper or in real size.
In 1970, Sam Wanamaker established the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust. A 0.8 acre site was identified that very year on Bankside, but construction work only began in 1987.
In 1982, Professor John Orrell revived interest in the plans of the Globe. His analysis of Wenceslas Hollar's `Long View of London' (1647) - a panorama of London taken from the tower of Southwark Cathedral - proved that the angles and relative heights of the buildings depicted in the drawing were accurate.
The next step in collecting evidence came in 1989. The Globe's original foundations were discovered on Bankside, about two hundred yards from the reconstruction, together with those of the Rose theatre. Significant archaeological evidence was presented to scholars and the Globe's project architects, Pentagram Design - despite the fact that 95% of the site of the original Globe is covered by a listed building (Anchor Terrace, shown in the illustration, now ...

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Added: 12/16/2007 11:50:03 AM
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