Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre

The second Globe, preliminary sketch (c. 1638) for Hollar's 1647 Long View of London
Address	Maiden Lane (now Park Street) Southwark London England
Coordinates	51°30′24″N 00°5′41″W / 51.50667°N 0.09472°W / 51.50667; -0.09472
Owner	Lord Chamberlain's Men
Type	Elizabethan theatre
Construction
Opened	1599 (1599)
Closed	1642
Demolished	1644–45
Rebuilt	1614

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and stayed open until the London theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here.^[1]

A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997 approximately 750 feet (230 m) from the site of the original theatre.^[2]