There were lots of famous theatres in London in Shakespeare's time, including the Curtain, the Rose, the Theatre and... the Globe! So the current one is named after the original Globe. Thank you, Sam Wanamaker, for making it possible! read more
Shakespeare's Globe is the complex housing a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse associated with William Shakespeare, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in 1599, destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. read more