Although Shakespeare's plays were performed at other venues during the playwright's career, the Globe Theatre in the Southwark district of London was the venue at which the Bard's best known stage works (including his four great tragedies) were first produced. The Globe was built during Shakespeare's early period in 1599 by one of his long-standing associates, Cuthbert Burbage, the brother of the most famous Shakespearean actor of the Elizabethan Age, Richard Burbage.
It is often mentioned in passing that Shakespeare himself appeared as an actor on the Globe's stage. This aspect of the Bard's life in the theater should not be over-estimated. Shakespeare's name appears in the cast lists of plays written by himself and by other Elizabethan authors, but there is no indication of the roles that he played. Tradition ascribes two parts to Shakespeare himself, that of the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet and that of Adam, the loyal, aged servant in As You Like It. In 1603, Shakespeare apparently acted in a play written by his friend and fellow author, Ben Jonson, but this is last time and last date in which Shakespeare is mentioned in the cast lists of the Elizabethan/Jacobean theater. Shakespeare acted, but this activity was subordinate not only to his work as a playwright but also to his labors as a theatrical producer.
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It's the theater where a good number of his plays were "put on"...he also, according to some, owned stock in the Globe.
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He was part owner-playwright for it--actor in it.
Maggie
the globe theater is where shakespeare started his famous work,where he actually became famous . where whe wrote romeo and juliet and many other famous plays !
Shakespeare's plays were performed at the Globe Theatre
Odd fact - The Globe Theatre has been built 3 times!
The first time, it caught fire due to a cannon going off during a performance. The second time, the Puritans did not like the idea of theatre at all, and got rid of it. It wasn't until the 1970s that the Globe with rebuilt. It's in the approx. place the first one was located, and it still stands today.
I am sure that you can take a wild stab in the dark about what a theatre might have to do with a playwright.
That is the theater where many of his plays were done in.
thats were his plays were shown
that is were most of his plays were performed.
Courtney
http://www.bardweb.net/globe.html
Shakespeare's company erected the storied Globe Theatre circa 1598 in London's Bankside district. It was one of four major theatres in the area, along with the Swan, the Rose, and the Hope. The open-air, octagonal amphitheater rose three stories high with a diameter of approximately 100 feet, holding a seating capacity of up to 3,000 spectators. The rectangular stage platform on which the plays were performed was nearly 43 feet wide and 28 feet deep. This staging area probably housed trap doors in its flooring and primitive rigging overhead for various stage effects.
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