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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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

From 1997 to 2007, Ms. van Kampen, 64, was the director of theater music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, overseeing and composing the music for its productions.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

He was working with a Shakespearean enthusiast to build a mobile, three-story Globe Theater completely out of repurposed shipping containers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2017

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 William Allan Nielson

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