Burbage named it the Globe after the figure of Hercules carrying the globe on his back - for in like manner the actors carried the Globe's framework on their backs across the Thames. A flag of Hercules with the globe was raised above the theatre with the Latin motto 'totus mundus agit histrionem', or 'all the world's a playhouse'. During the fateful performance of Henry VIII on 29 June , the cannon announcing the unexpected arrival of the king at the end of Act 1 set fire to the thatched roof, and within an hour the Globe burned to the ground.
Everyone escaped safely, save for one man whose breeches reportedly caught fire. Two different songs had been written about it by the next day. The Globe was rebuilt by February ; the company could then afford to decorate it much more extravagantly, and it had a tiled roof instead of thatched.
However, by this point Shakespeare's influence had lessened, and he was spending more and more time back in Stratford-upon-Avon. Disaster struck again in the when parliament ordered the closure of London theatres.
In the Globe was destroyed and the land sold for building. In , an American actor and director Samuel Wanamaker set up the Shakespeare's Globe Trust to pursue his dream of reconstructing the original Globe Theatre. Charles Dickens Tour Today's world's literature and mass culture are hardly imaginable without the works of Charles Dickens, recognized as the greatest British novelist of the Victorian era. Dickens was born in Shakespeare's London Walking Tour Often called England's national poet or simply "the Bard", William Shakespeare is revered as one of, if not the greatest playwright this world has ever seen.
The dramas, such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are among the finest creations in the English language, translated into every major language and performed more often than those of any other author Beatles London Walking Tour Perhaps one of the most famed and influential bands of all time, whose music has transcended generations, The Beatles continues to be a source of entertainment many decades after the group was formed and split up As the Bridges of London Around thirty bridges span the Thames river in London, each with its own story.
Our self-guided walk takes you to see nine such historical structures located in the heart of the city, starting from the storied Westminster Bridge and ending at the iconic Tower Bridge. The latter has stood over the River Thames in London since and is one of the finest, most recognizable bridges in the The Globe was owned by many actors, who except for one were also shareholders in the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
These initial proportions changed over time, as new sharers were added. The Globe was built in using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, that had been built by Richard Burbage's father, James Burbage, in Shoreditch in The Burbages originally had a year lease of the site on which the Theatre was built. When the lease ran out, they dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it over the Thames to reconstruct it as The Globe. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching.
According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man who put out his burning breeches with a bottle of ale.
Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in It was destroyed in to make room for tenements. Its exact location remained unknown until remnants of its foundations were discovered in beneath the car park of Anchor Terrace on Park Street the shape of the foundations are replicated in the surface of the car park. There may be further remains beneath Anchor Terrace, but the 18th century terrace is listed and therefore cannot be disturbed by archaeologists.
Layout of the Globe The Globe's actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries. The evidence suggests that it was a three-story, open-air amphitheatre between 97 and feet The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his engraved "Long View" of London in However, in , the uncovering of a small part of the Globe's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 or possibly 18 sides.
At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit, or, harking back to the old inn-yards, yard where, for a penny, people the "groundlings" would stand to watch the performance. Groundlings would eat hazelnuts during performances — during the excavation of the Globe nutshells were found preserved in the dirt — or oranges.
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