Globe Theater

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1. The theater in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed. Shakespeare himself acted at the Globe. It burned and was rebuilt shortly before Shakespeare's death and was finally pulled down in the middle of the seventeenth century.

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In the late twentieth century a reconstruction of the theater was built near its original site.

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Above the entrance to the first Globe Theater hung the words “Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem” — All the World’s a Stage — which served as its presiding motto.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2020

Dominic Dromgoole was the artistic director of the Globe Theater from 2006 to 2016.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2019

Plus, the Old Globe Theater in San Diego is presenting a jukebox musical inspired by the music of Huey Lewis and the News.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2018

Biotech and the Old Globe Theater are not the only draws in San Diego.

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2015

If the Globe Theater of Shakespeare's day had lived and prospered up to the present we might have an example to match that of France.

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