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Layout of the Globe The Globe's actual dimensions are unknown, but its shape and size can be approximated from scholarly inquiry over the last two centuries.
The evidence suggests that it was a three-story, open-air amphitheatre between 97 and feet The Globe is shown as round on Wenceslas Hollar's sketch of the building, later incorporated into his engraved "Long View" of London in However, in , the uncovering of a small part of the Globe's foundation suggested that it was a polygon of 20 or possibly 18 sides. At the base of the stage, there was an area called the pit, or, harking back to the old inn-yards, yard where, for a penny, people the "groundlings" would stand to watch the performance.
Groundlings would eat hazelnuts during performances — during the excavation of the Globe nutshells were found preserved in the dirt — or oranges. Around the yard were three levels of stadium-style seats, which were more expensive than standing room A rectangular stage platform, also known as an 'apron stage', thrust out into the middle of the open-air yard.
The stage measured approximately 43 feet On this stage, there was a trap door for use by performers to enter from the "cellarage" area beneath the stage. There may have been other trap doors around the stage. Large columns on either side of the stage supported a roof over the rear portion of the stage.
The ceiling under this roof was called the "heavens," and may have been painted with clouds and the sky. Burbage named it the Globe after the figure of Hercules carrying the globe on his back - for in like manner the actors carried the Globe's framework on their backs across the Thames.
A flag of Hercules with the globe was raised above the theatre with the Latin motto 'totus mundus agit histrionem', or 'all the world's a playhouse'. During the fateful performance of Henry VIII on 29 June , the cannon announcing the unexpected arrival of the king at the end of Act 1 set fire to the thatched roof, and within an hour the Globe burned to the ground. Everyone escaped safely, save for one man whose breeches reportedly caught fire.
Two different songs had been written about it by the next day. The Globe was rebuilt by February ; the company could then afford to decorate it much more extravagantly, and it had a tiled roof instead of thatched. However, by this point Shakespeare's influence had lessened, and he was spending more and more time back in Stratford-upon-Avon. Disaster struck again in the when parliament ordered the closure of London theatres.
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