An impression of the first Globe Theatre. This is an enlarged and coloured detail from J. C. Visscher’s engraved panorama of London (1616). Despite the picture’s clarity, scholars doubt Visscher’s accuracy in terms of proportions, angles, and the small number of sides to the exterior polygon wall. It was printed three years after the first Globe burned down.
The Globe Theatre was completed in 1599 in Southwark on the south bank of the River Thames as a replacement for an earlier arena called “The Theatre”, which had been built in Shoreditch outside the city walls by James Burbage in 1576. The lease of The Theatre’s site in Shoreditch, north of the City of London, was lost in April 1598. On 28 December 1598 The Theatre was covertly dismantled and the timbers carried across the
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Citation: Richmond, Hugh Macrae. "Globe Theatre built in London". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 May 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=476, accessed 26 November 2024.]
