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Globe Playhouse The Excavation In 1989 a team from the Museum of London uncovered about five per cent of the foundations of the Globe in the car park behind Anchor Terrace on Southwark Bridge Road. The area excavated consisted of the foundations of one of the stair towers and the gallery to which it was attached. Position your mouse over the drawing below for a magnified view of the area excavated. The rest of the remains lie beneath the late Georgian building called Anchor Terrace which is listed for preservation, and a main road. Despite pleas from many people who want to know as much as we can learn about the original setting for those jewels of the English language and culture played here four centuries ago, English Heritage backed by the Government department concerned, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, have refused to allow further excavations. In reply to a letter I wrote to the department in 1998, a spokesman wrote: "The remains are being preserved in situ for future generations when, as a result of new techniques, we are likely to be able to derive far more information from archaeological deposits than is possible today, just as we can learn more now than was possible only 50 years ago." This seems to me to be an argument for never excavating any site, because we shall always be able to do it better in 50 years time. If you want to know more about the Globe and the excavations, then visit the Reading University Globe site. Professor Andrew Gurr leads the research on the Globe there, and is the senior advisor to the Shakespeare Globe Trust who have rebuilt the new Globe on Bankside. He has written a number of books about theatre and playgoing in Shakespeare's time which I recommend to anyone interested in this subject. Links Internal Original Globe   The story of how the original Globe came to be built   The building - a plan and what the Globe may have looked like   The excavation - what was discovered in 1989   The Rose - The Globe's great rival playhouse, its star Ned Alleyn and owner Philip Henslowe       New Globe   The story of how the new Shakespeare's Globe came to be built on London's Bankside in the 1990's.       Mike's Views, Reviews and Previews     2004 The Season of Star-Crossed Lovers     Romeo & Juliet Much Ado About Nothing Measure for Measure     2003 The Season of Regime Change     Richard II Richard III Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe Edward II by Christopher Marlowe The Taming of the Shrew     2002 The Season of Cupid & Psyche     Twelfth Night A Midsummer Night's Dream The Golden Ass     2001  The Celtic Season     King Lear Macbeth Cymbeline     2000     The Tempest Hamlet Two Noble Kinsmen The Antipodes     1999     Julius Caesar The Comedy of Errors Antony and Cleopatra Augustine's Oak by Peter Oswald     1998     The Merchant of Venice As You Like It Otra Tempestad     1997       Globe Main   Globe Playhouse top page       Recommended Books   My list of recommended books about the Globe, Rose and other playhouses of the time may be found in the Globe Playhouse section of the Well Furlong Book Shop. If you so wish, you may go on to buy many of the volumes in our Book Shop directly from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.       Home|Gaynor|Mike|Art|Theatre|Book Shop   Updated 9th May 2004