LibGuides: Year 7 & 8 Topic Guide: Shakespeare: The Globe

From The Globe

Shakespeare's Globe Virtual Tour
Take a look around Shakespeare's globe from the comfort of your computer.

Information: The Globe Theatre

Britannica School: Globe Theatre
This article outlines basic information about Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. You can also look at more pictures and watch some videos.
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"In 1599 the Globe Theatre was built in London, England, for the acting company of William Shakespeare. The theater became famous because Shakespeare’s plays were put on there. Indeed, Shakespeare designed many of his plays—including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and All’s Well That Ends Well—for performance in the Globe Theatre. Although the Globe was torn down in the 17th century, a replica of the theater was built in the late 20th century."
EBSCO : The Globe Theatre
A topic overview from EBSCO Explora about the history of the Globe Theatre in London.
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"The building of the Globe Theatre marks the flowering of the Elizabethan amphitheater, a design first established and perfected in 1576 by a London-area playhouse, The Theatre. The Globe gave William Shakespeare an apt and secure home for his mature work, launching an extraordinary period in English literature."
EBSCO Read It: The Globe Theatre
This Read It! article provides a simple outline of information about The Globe Theatre in London. Presss 'play' to listen to the article.
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"When the Globe Theatre opened in 1997 with a production of William Shakespeare's Henry V, it was one of the newest theaters in London. But in a way, it is really one of the oldest. The Globe is a replica of the theater where many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed. Today's Globe stands only 200 feet away from the site of the original Globe, and is the closest that modern-day theatergoers can get to experiencing a play as Shakespeare intended."
EBSCO PoV: The Globe Theatre
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Reports on the restoration of the Globe Theater in London, England. Theater's historical background; Problems faced by those who worked for the theater's restoration.
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"Yeats' lines on Shakespeare's greatest characters are now literally true again at the place they originated: the Globe theater in London, site of the premieres of the playwright's major masterworks. This September a new Globe opens for business. But this did not occur without criticism and cries of "Disneyland on the Thames."

An international band of scholars have worked hard to ensure that the new theater resembles as closely as possible the old one for which Shakespeare wrote his masterworks. When the project first began, critics thought that such authenticity was impossible. Now, some regard such authenticity itself as a threat."

The Globe in pictures

London / Globe Theatre / Reconstruction. [Photograph]. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Retrieved 24 Apr 2020, from
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Books

Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance by Farah Karim Cooper (Editor, Volume Editor); Tiffany Stern (Editor, Volume Editor)
Call Number: EBSCO High School eBooks
ISBN: 9781472558596
Publication Date: 2014-12-18
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.