The Globe
Theatre

Watching a play at the Globe
• Market stalls outside the Theatre
• Groundlings or Stinkards
• Stood in a pit with 500 others
• Really enjoyed plays
• Missed work, paid a tenth of their wages,
stood for up to three hours.

Watching a play at the Globe
• Upper class nobles-
• Could afford more expensive tickets
• Could pay to sit in the stage
• The Globe held a maximum of 1500
• 3000 watched the plays

Shakespearian actors
• Actors were treated better when theatres
were built
• Skills required:
• Sword fighting, falling, overacting, carrying
your voice, memory.
• Cue acting
• Cue scripting
• Shakespeare acted in his own plays
• Young boys played female roles

Building the Globe Theatre
• The Theatre
• Lord Chamberlain’s men
• Labourers, painters, thatchers,
joiners, carpenters and plasterers.
• Stone, nails, thatch, plaster and
timber
• Dr. John Dee

The Globe Closing down
• Closed 1614
• Not allowed to perform during Lent
• Closed on a Thursday
• Closed during Winter
• 1608 plague
• Puritans
• Puritans lost power in 1660
• Globe never rebuilt

The History of the Globe
• Lord Chamberlain’s Men
• The Globe Alight
• 29 June 1613
• Cuthbert Burbage, Richard Burbage, John
Heminges, Thomas Pope, Augustine
Philips and William Shakespeare.

The Globe lives on!
• Sam Wanamaker
• 1949
• 1970 founded Shakespeare’s Globe Trust
• Wanamaker died on 18th December 1993
• Shakespeare’s Globe opened in 1997

Quiz
• Who was the man who brought back the Globe
Theatre?
• What was the name of the religious group that
closed the Globe theatre?
• How many people watched the plays?
• Other than writing the plays what else did
William Shakespeare do at the Globe Theatre?
• How many skills that actors would of needed can
you name.

The Globe
theatre