THE NOW-FAMED GLOBE THEATER BURNED DOWN IN 1613. 

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.

There were actually three Globes:

1. The original Globe Theatre, built in 1599 by the playing company to which Shakespeare belonged, and destroyed by fire in 1613.
2. The Globe Theatre was rebuilt in 1614, closed in 1642, and demolished in 1644.
3. A modern reconstruction of the original Globe, named “Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre”, opened in 1997.

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