The+Globe+Theatre

In 1596, a student name Johannes De Witt attended a play in London at the Swan Theater. The Globe Theater was in London’s backside. It was one of the four major theatres in the area along with the Swan. It a 8 side theatre that’s 3 stories high and can holed up to 3,000 spectators. They performed on a 43 feet wide and 28 feet deep stage platform. The theatre built in 1576 by James Burbage. December 28, 1598 the Burbage brothers stripped the theatre down to its foundation. They moved it across the Thames to backside and proceeded using it for the Globe. The Globe played some of Shakespeare’s greatest work over the next decade. In 1613 original globe Theatre burned to the ground during a performance of Henry vIII. A new Globe on the foundation of its predecessor before Shakespeare’s death. It continued until 1642, when the puritans closed it down. The globe will remain a ghost for the next 352 years. The Globe was rediscovered in 1989.sam Wanamaker and his workers began construction in 1993. They completed building The Globe in 1997. The theatre can seat up to 1,500 people between the galleries and the groundling. In 1997 season the theatre attracted 210,000 patrons.  Pressley, J. M. "An Encapsulated Biography." __Shakespeare Resource Center__, February 10, 2005. October 11, 2005. <[] __Shakespeare’s Globe Theater.__ 2009. __Paper Cutouts by Paper Toys__. (19 March, 2009) [|www.papertoys.com/golbe.htm]