The Globe Theatre was a London theatre built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It burned down in 1613 but was rebuilt on the same site by 1614. The Globe was owned by actors as shareholders and was constructed using timber from an earlier theatre. It had an open-air courtyard that could hold over 1,500 people across three galleries surrounding the inner stage area.

1. THE GLOBE THEATRE

2. INTRODUCTIONThe Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.

4. HISTORYThe Globe was owned by actors who were also shareholders in Lord Chamberlain's Men. The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre, The Theatre, which had been built by Richard Burbage's father, JamesBurbage, in Shoreditch in 1576. The Burbages originally had a 21-year lease of the site on which The Theatre was built but owned the building outright.

5. SITUETIONThe exterior appearance of the Globe can only be pieced together from sketches of the theatre found in sweeping Elizabethan city scenes, and the interior appearance from the drawing of the Swan Theatre. From these images we can describe the Globe as a hexagonal structure with an inner court about 55 feet across. It was three-stories high and had no roof. The open courtyard and three semicircular galleries could together hold more than 1,500 people.

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