This document discusses listening to medieval music and the opening of Shakespeare's Globe theater in London in 1997. It also mentions Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost from the mid-1590s.
Henry VII
Cannon ball
The Puritans and the demolition of the Globe TheatreThe end of the Globe Theatre was in sight. In 1642, under the force of the Puritans, the English Parliament issued an ordinance suppressing all stage plays in the theatres. The Puritans, lead by Oliver Cromwell, who had been elected to Parliament came into total conflict with the Royalists lead by King Charles I and the English Civil war broke out. In 1644 the Globe Theatre was demolished by the Puritans.
White Globe Theatre FlagsWhite Globe Theatre flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a comedy. Using white flag indicated that the play would be a light subject.
Black Globe Theatre FlagsBlack Globe Theatre flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a tragedy. Using a black flag indicated that the play would be a dark subject, associated with death.
Red Globe Theatre FlagsRed Globe Theatre flags were used to advertise that the play performed that day would be a history. Using a red flag indicated that the play would be a subject, associated with blood, as most plays based on history were!
Stage and galleries
Name
The name of the Globe supposedly alludes to the Latin tag totus mundus agit histrionem, in turn derived from quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem—"because all the world is a playground"—from Petronius,[39] which had wide circulation in England in the Burbages' time. Totus mundus agit histrionem was, according to this explanation, therefore adopted as the theatre's motto. Another allusion, familiar to the contemporary theatre-goer, would have been to Teatrum Mundi,
230 m from the original site
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Water taxis
First Globe 1599 made with timber from the dismantled Theatre (1576)
1613 it went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII . Second Globe was built in 1614 and torn down in 1644
Third Globe 1997, 200 m from the original.