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Okla-homey
6/29/2010, 07:12 AM
June 29, 1613 The Globe Theater burns down

397 years ago today, the Globe Theater, where most of Shakespeare's plays debuted, burned down in 1613.

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The Globe was built by Shakespeare's acting company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, in 1599 from the timbers of London's very first permanent theater, Burbage's Theater, built in 1576. Before James Burbage built his theater, plays and dramatic performances were ad hoc affairs, performed on street corners and in the yards of inns. However, the Common Council of London, in 1574, started licensing theatrical pieces performed in inn yards within the city limits.

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In 1999, a new Globe reproduction was built on the Thames in London.

To escape the restriction, actor James Burbage built his own theater on land he leased outside the city limits. When Burbage's lease ran out, the Lord Chamberlain's men moved the timbers to a new location and created the Globe.

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New Globe stage

Like other theaters of its time, the Globe was a round wooden structure with a stage at one end, and covered balconies for the gentry. The galleries could seat about 1,000 people, with room for another 2,000 "groundlings," who could stand on the ground around the stage.

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High school English students have been making models of the Globe for years. I made one myself back in the day, but it wasn't as nice as this one.

The Lord Chamberlain's men built Blackfriars theater in 1608, a smaller theater that seated about 700 people, to use in winter when the open-air Globe wasn't practical.

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Montgomery AL is home to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. ASF boasts a modern theater complex which boasts a stylized Globe Theater design.

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In Alabama, you can get a tag for your car which celebrates and supports the ASF and the "Bard of Avon,"

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For the record, you see a lot more of these than the Shakespeare tags in Alabama.

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Frozen Sooner
6/29/2010, 07:40 AM
For the record, you see a lot more of these than the Shakespeare tags in Alabama.

And the world is a poorer place thereby.

stoopified
6/29/2010, 09:47 AM
..and Olevet STILL hasn't learned not to get drunk,fall asleep while smoking. :D

stoopified
6/29/2010, 09:47 AM
Oh yeah,go whitey!