ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed at the Globe, although his plays were performed at other theatres and many playwrights wrote for the Globe. Who built the first Globe? The first Globe was built by the company Shakespeare was in – the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Globe Theatre that you may be familiar with today is the third Globe while the first was created in 1599. In May 1599 the first theatre was ready to be opened and it was named the Globe. The theatre was originally named the Globe after the figure of Hercules.

Detailed explanation-3: -The current Globe Theatre opened in 1997, after many years of campaigning by the founder of the Shakespeare’s Globe Trust, Sam Wanamaker.

Detailed explanation-4: -It could hold up to 3, 000 people. By May 1599, the new theatre was ready to be opened. Burbage named it the Globe after the figure of Hercules carrying the globe on his back-for in like manner the actors carried the Globe’s framework on their backs across the Thames.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two of the six Globe shareholders, Richard Burbage and his brother Cuthbert Burbage, owned double shares of the whole, or 25% each; the other four men, Shakespeare, John Heminges, Augustine Phillips, and Thomas Pope, owned a single share, or 12.5%.