Shakespeare's Globe Theater

Ever wonder what it was like to see a Shakespeare play in the theater for which it was written? The Globe Theater, first built in 1599, burnt to the ground on June 29, 1613, when its thatched roof was ignited by a cannon fired during a performance of Henry VIII. It was rebuilt a year later, but closed in 1642 by Oliver Cromwell's Puritan and theater-hating Roundheads, who, two years later, tore it down and built tenement housing on the site.

The Globe was reconstructed in the 1990s, and a new theater company, dedicated to performing plays from Shakespeare's day, opened the theater's first season in 1997 with performances of Henry V and A Winter's Tale