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

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

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

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2015

Forman narrates in his diary how he saw the play at the Globe Theater, May 16, 1611.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.