June 29, 2006
Globe Theatre Burns to the Ground
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The first Globe Theatre was an Elizabethan theatre where several of Shakespeare's plays were originally staged. It was built around 1598 in London's Bankside district, but it burned down in 1613, after a cannon shot during a performance of "Henry VIII" ignited the thatched roof of the gallery. It was rebuilt immediately, this time with a tiled roof, and reopened in the following July. Puritans closed it and all other theaters in 1642, and it was demolished soon after. Where is the modern Globe?
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