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In 1599
and his fellow actors paid for their own playhouse to be built out of the timbers
of The Theatre. They called it and there they staged the first productions of many of Shakespeare's finest
plays as well as works by other playwrights, such as Ben
Jonson and Fletcher, who took over from Shakespeare as the
King's Men's principal playwright when Will retired.
The playhouse was
the Globe's greatest rival.
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In 1997 close to the site of the
original, the Queen officially opened the new Globe
known as
on London's Bankside overlooking the River Thames. It is a faithful reproduction of the
original and, was built due to decades of work by the American
actor Sam Wanamaker.
The
2008 season is the tenth
Globe season. It is called 'Totus Mundus' and presents
four Shakespeare plays and
two new modern plays. The first production
King Lear was very good
indeed, but I look forward to all
the Bard's plays on offer. |