Globe Theatre

The globe theatre is a theatre where the plays Shakespeare rote were performed at a good quality. The best quality back in the 1500's.

The globe theatre was built in 1599 in Southwark on the south bank of London’s River Thames. It is built as a large round open theatre making it look like a dougnut from above. It holds up to 3,000 spectators, its 3 stories high of seating and is 100 feet in diameter. At the base of the stage there is an area called the pit which held the groundlings, they are the people that only paid a penny to stand and watch. There was also more places around the globe theatre which let people watch the shows being performed from the poor the the rich. One part of the stage was called the apron stage, it was a rectangular platform that thrut out into the pit so it felt like the audience in the pit were in the middle of the play. William Shakespeare was a shareholder and he owned 12.5% of the theatre which meant that the money the that the globe theatre made some of it went to him. Out side there where flags that were out to show the audience what play was going to be performed.