The Globe

Theater
• The Globe Theater was located
Banksidein Southwark, London.

• The Globe was built by carpenter Peter

Smith and his workers, was the most
magnificent theater that London had ever
seen in its time.

• Was built in 1597 -1598.

• This theatre could hold several thousand
people.

 The Globe Theatre didn’t just show plays.

But at times it was also a brothel and
gambling house. Nabilah and Michael
 The old Globe Theatre
was a magnificent
amphitheatre because of
its shape, it amplified the
sounds of the play.
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 •Elizabethan Advertising-
Towering above the Globe was a flag
pole. Flags were used as a form of
advertising. Flags were displayed on
the day of the performance
• Color coding - a black flag meant a
tragedy , white a comedy and red a
history. Elizabethan and
Shakespearean

 Motto- “The whole

CREST-Lord world is a
Chamberlain’s Men flew a
playhouse” or in
flag with the figure of
Hercules carrying a Globe different
on his shoulders to translation “ the
announce the imminent whole world is a
performance of their first stage.” (Totus
performance, Julius mundus 
Caesar. agit histrionem)
 Links
 http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/globe/gl
 http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-sh
 http://www.globe-theatre.org.uk/
The Globe Theater
Audiences
 The Globe theatre could hold 1500
people in the audience and this
number expanded to 3000 with
the people who crowded outside
the theatres

 The Nobles - Upper Class Nobles

would have paid for the better
seats in the Lord's rooms paying 5
coins.

 The Lower Classes, the

Commoners, were called the
Groundlings or Stinkards, and
would have stood in the theatre
pit I penny entrance fee. They put
1 penny in a box at the theatre
entrance - hence the term 'Box
Office'
Cont…
 The Elizabethan general public stand or sit
in the 'Pit' of the Globe Theater using
cushions for comfort.

 Rich nobles could watch the play from a

chair set on the side of the Globe stage
itself.

 Theatre performances were held in the

afternoon, because, there was no artificial
lighting.
 AUDIENCES
 Men and women attended
plays, but often the
prosperous women would
wear a mask to disguise
their identity.
 The plays were extremely
popular and attracted vast
audiences to the Globe.
 The audiences rate only
dropped during outbreaks of
the bubonic plague, William
Shakespeare used these
periods of closure to write
more plays and go home to
Stratford