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.

Example Sentences

This annual family celebration at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater moves online and includes arts and crafts, a makeup and character workshop and a reading from “Henry V.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2020

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

In a recent phone interview, Mr. Thomas, 64, discussed Agent Gaad’s fate as well as his current role as Jimmy Carter in Lawrence Wright’s play “Camp David” at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater.

From New York Times • May 18, 2016

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

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2015

Besides this, he became about 1599 a sharer, with Heming, Condell, Philips, and others, in the receipts of the Globe Theater, erected in 1597-8 by Richard and Cuthbert Burbage.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan