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The Globe Theater, where most of Shakespeare’s plays debuted, burneddown on this day in 1613.The Globe was built by Shakespeare’s acting company, the LordChamberlain’s Men, in 1599 from the timbers of London’s very firstpermanent theater, Burbage’s Theater, built in 1576. Before JamesBurbage built his theater, plays and dramatic performances were ad hocaffairs, performed on street corners and in the yards of inns. However,the Common Council of London, in 1574, started licensing theatricalpieces performed in inn yards within the city limits. To escape therestriction, actor James Burbage built his own theater on land he leasedoutside the city limits. When Burbage’s lease ran out, the LordChamberlain’s men moved the timbers to a new location and created theGlobe. Like other theaters of its time, the Globe was a round woodenstructure with a stage at one end, and covered balconies for the gentry.The galleries could seat about 1,000 people, with room for another 2,000“groundlings,ö who could stand on the ground around the stage.The Lord Chamberlain’s men built Blackfriars theater in 1608, a smallertheater that seated about 700 people, to use in winter when the open-airGlobe wasn’t practical.
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