The Globe Theater

The next place we visited was the Globe Theater, a replica of the theater where Shakespeare did most of his work back in his day. The original theater was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, or the actors that worked with him. However, the theater burned down in 1613 when during a theatrical performance they fired a cannon, causing a fire. It was rebuilt the year after but then closed down by the Puritans because they're no fun and didn't like the arts. Eventually the theater was "taken down" and wasn't rebuilt until modern day, officially opening in 1997. I think this theater represents how proud the British of are of their dear old Shakespeare because it was built basically to a tee all the way down to the materials they used when building it and the way they perform their plays today. Back then the theater wasn't just for seeing plays. It was a good chance to go out and socialize as well as show off your latest outfits if you were wealthy. Goes to show that even the theater there was class profiling. The rich obviously sat above everyone else in the covered seats (oh yeah, the theater is uncovered in the middle) so if you stood in the "general area" you would get soaked if it started to rain, which happens a lot here in London in case you haven't heard. I thought it was pretty cool to see the Globe Theater because Shakespeare is obviously so well known and pretty much everyone has read at least one play by him. However, I was shocked at how modern the theater was. I honestly had no idea that it had been built not too long ago. But, it was a neat experience seeing as we learned about how the people would act back in the day and where everyone would sit. So now here are a few pictures!.....

 setting up for a play 

 The ceiling represents heaven so if you were a God you would come down from the ceiling and if you were playing the devil you would come out from underneath, aka hell.