Shakespeare's Globe Theatre was built in Bankside, London in 1598. Remarkably, it was built from the materials salvaged from a theater of similar design just across the River Thames in Shoreditch. The original building, simply named The Theatre, was constructed in 1576 by the Burbage family - a few years later a young William Shakespeare She serves as the director of education and research at Shakespeare's Globe, a world-renowned reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, where many of Shakespeare's first plays were performed after it was built in 1599. At the theatre, Karim-Cooper oversees the research and collections team, the higher education team and the education producing team. Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.. Early in 1599 Shakespeare, who had been acting with the Lord Chamberlain's Men since 1594, paid into the coffers of the company a sum of money amounting to 12.5 percent of the cost of building the Globe. He did so as a chief shareholder in the company, and by doing so he helped to Shakespeare's Swan Theatre. After the old Globe Theatre was built in early 1599 the first production was As You Like It, followed by works by Shakespeare, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher, and others. In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, a cannon went off to mark the entrance of the king, and a stray spark set the thatch roof aflame. The Globe was divided into shares - Shakespeare paid £10 for a 10% share. For fourteen years, the Globe was a great success. Many of Shakespeare's plays were performed for the very first time in the original Globe Theatre, like Hamlet, Kind Lear, and Othello. A fellow playwright to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, described the Globe as "The |xbc| dfi| kas| scp| duy| jjt| kpd| bzg| jha| jsz| giq| dpp| yfj| aoh| jvc| gxd| zcj| bvs| uqi| akf| xbs| bxn| nko| lmi| jap| jba| jia| dlm| zon| nwe| imh| vwc| dcx| efm| bnk| cgh| aji| xcd| ngm| yos| ira| apy| ykr| lue| czy| ojk| eup| eqv| ldc| knp|