The reconstructed Globe Theatre, London: The 'holy grail' for Shakespeare aficionados
Globe Theatre, Bankside, London This evening I am posting information on a building the 16th century original of which played a key role in the development of the English language insofar as many of William Shakespeare’s plays were written with the particular auditorium and audience in mind. The Shakespeare plays first performed there are: Julius Caesar (1599) As You Like It Hamlet Measure for Measure Othello King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Other playwrights wrote for the Globe, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher. The original location for the theatre group (The King’s Men), of which Shakespeare was a member, was Shoreditch, on the north bank of the River Thames. However, a dispute over renewal of the lease triggered a re-location of the theatre group during late 1598 when a new theatre, the Globe was constructed at Bankside, on the south bank of the Thames close to the location of the current Globe. Shakespeare was one of four...