Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. The Globe Theatre you see today in London is the third Globe. The first opened in 1599 and was built by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, the company that William Shakespeare wrote for and part-owned. It was here that Shakespeare conceived his final great plays, including The Tempest. The current Globe Theatre opened in 1997, after many years of campaigning by the founder of the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, Sam Wanamaker.

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