The Curse of Shakespeare's Grave! Shakespeare's Acting Company Many theater companies at the time required a wealthy benefactor or patron to pay their bills.
Lord Chamberlain's Men Encyclopedia Britannica. King's Men Encyclopedia Britannica. Alan H. Nelson, Record for Early English Drama. March 15, August 27, Sometime after Sir George Buc, the future Master of the Revels, purchased the anonymous play George a Greene, Pinner of Wakefield shown here, he added two manuscript notes to the title page.
February 17, Examination of Sir Gelly Meyrick. In early , Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, led a rebellion which was over almost as soon as it began.
February 18, The structure was similar to that of their old theatre, as well as that of the neighbouring bear garden. The rectangular stage, at five feet high, projected halfway into the yard and the circular galleries. The pillars were painted to look like Italian marble, the sky painted midnight blue, and images of the gods overlooked the balcony. It could hold up to 3, people. By May , 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. A flag of Hercules with the globe was raised above the theatre with the Latin motto 'totus mundus agit histrionem', or 'all the world's a playhouse'.
During the fateful performance of Henry VIII on 29 June , the cannon announcing the unexpected arrival of the king at the end of Act 1 set fire to the thatched roof, and within an hour the Globe burned to the ground. Everyone escaped safely, save for one man whose breeches reportedly caught fire. Two different songs had been written about it by the next day.
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