Question:
Who rebuild the Globe Theater??
shay-lah♥
18 years ago
After the Globe Theater got burned down because of the cannonball it was rebuilt.

Does anyone know who rebuilt it?????? Was it William Shakespeare????
Five answers:
Retired
18 years ago
In 1613, during a performance of Henry VIII, the thatch of the Globe was accidentally set alight by a cannon, set off to mark the king's entrance onstage in a scene at Cardinal Wolsey's palace. The entire theatre was destroyed within the hour. By June 1614 it had been rebuilt, this time with a tiled gallery roof and a circular shape. It was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theatres, to make way for tenement dwellings.



In 1970 the American actor Sam Wanamaker established the Shakespeare Globe Playhouse Trust. Seventeen years later a groundbreaking ceremony was held on a Bankside site near that of the original Globe, and in 1989 the foundations of the original building (now buried beneath a historic 19th-century building) were discovered. Although only a small percentage of the original theatre could be examined, the discovery of these foundations enabled scholars to make certain design adjustments. By referring to a number of extant Elizabethan buildings for clues to the structure, style, interior, and roofing, scholars and architects completed the design of the Globe Theatre reconstruction. Using traditional methods and materials, with only a few concessions to modern fire regulations and the like, builders completed work on the new Globe Theatre in the mid-1990s. Performances of various types have been held since the late 1980s, and a regular season was inaugurated in 1996.
Peaches
18 years ago
The Globe Theatre was rebuilt by the "company," that is, The King's Men, formerly The Chamberlain's Men, of which Shakespeare was one.



The name of Shakespeare's playing company at that time was "The King's Men," complete with a royal patent (granted in 1603).



I'm talking about the Globe Theater that was built in 1614 to replace the Globe that was burned to the ground when a cannon shot ignited the thatched roof of the gallery in 1613 (during a performance of Henry VIII), not the New Globe Theater that was completed in 1996.
waddyasay?
18 years ago
Great question. The Globe Theatre that stands today was completed in 1997.



As for those earlier Globe theatres, here's what one BBC site said:



"The Globe Theatre was built in 1598-99. The first recorded performance was of Julius Caesar in September 1599. Many of Shakespeare's plays were written for and performed at the Globe, which burnt down in 1613. It was rebuilt in 1614, only to be destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's Puritan troops thirty years later. "



The second one was built in 1614 (after the first one burned down) by the Shakespeare Playing Company (see second link below). William Shakespeare lived until 1616 so he was probably around.
violeta
9 years ago
Well, William Shakespeare didn't do it. He was a playwright, not a carpenter! I'm not sure, but I think the man who built the original one rebuilt it again. Someone else correct me if I'm wrong. Then, in 1642, the Puritans closed it. It wasn't until the 1970's did Sam Wanamaker sp? rebuilt it.
jennifer f
18 years ago
it was rebuilt but not in the original spot. in the original spot there is just a placard stating where it was. the new building the one which we know of today is situated on the south bankof the river thames opposite st pauls cathedral. building began in 1987. it was Sam Wanamaker who set up the shalespeare globe trust in 1970. this then led to it being re built in its present spot. it is very unfortunate that sadly Sam Wanamaker died in 1993 and never got to see the finished result.


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