THE GLOBE THEATER WAS BUILT IN 1599 BY THE CHAMBERLAIN'S MEN, SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYING COMPANY.There was history to the place, the architecture was Precise. audiences BEHAVED AND were treated a DIFFERENT way depending on SPECIFIC things.
History
Direct Quote: "The Globe has been accustomed to lending its stage to the occasional foreign company, but this year it went the whole hog. Between April and June all Shakespeare’s 36 plays, plus his long poem Venus and Adonis, were performed in 37 languages"(Spurling 1).
Paraphrase: Shakespheres plays were peformed there. 36 plays were done in 37 languages.
Direct Quote: "Globe Theater, London playhouse, built in 1598, where most of Shakespeare's plays were first presented. It burned in 1613, was rebuilt in 1614, and was destroyed by the Puritans in 1644. A working replica opened in 1997"(Theater 1).
Paraphrase: Was built in the year 1589. Burned down but then was rebuilt and then destroyed and then a replica was built later on in time.
Architect
Direct Quote: "In his play.. called his theater a "wooden o". It was large round( or polygonal) building, three stories high, with a large platform stage the projected from one end into a yard open to the sky" ( Anderson 778).
Paraphrase: The Globe Theater is large and round.It is three stories high.It also includes a large stage.
PLAYS AND AUDIENCE
Direct Quote: "The apron of the main stage certainly projected into the area where standing room was available to the groundlings—the audience members who paid the least to see performances"(Cook 1).
Paraphrase: People who did not have much money often stood at the bottom. Reason being was because there was no seats and they stood the whole time during the performances. These people were called groundlings.
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Work Cited
Anderson, Robert. “Shakespeare and His Theater: A Perfect Match.” Holt Literature & Language Arts: Mastering the California Standards: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, by G. Kylene Beers et al., Austin, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2003, pp. 778-80.
---. “William Shakespeare's Life: A Genius from Stratford.” Holt Literature & Language Arts: Mastering the California Standards: Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, by G. Kylene Beers et al., Austin, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 2003, pp. 776-77.
Cook, James Wyatt. “Globe Theatre.” Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom’s Literature, Facts On File, Inc.
“Globe Theatre.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition (2016): 1. Literary Reference Center. Web. 6 Dec. 2016.
Hager, Alan, ed. “Globe Theatre.” Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th and 17th Centuries. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2005. Bloom’s Literature, Facts On File,
Lander, Jesse M. “Shakespeare, William.” World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 7 Dec. 2016
Seidel, Michael. “Globe Theatre.” World Book Advanced. World Book, 2016. Web. 17 Nov. 2016.
Spurling, John. “This Wooden O.” Hudson Review 65.2 (2012): 300-302. Literary Reference Center. Web. 4 Dec. 2016.
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