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17 Cards in this Set
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Master carpenter of modern globe |
Peter McCurdy |
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Drunken knight character |
Sir John Falstaff -Origin in Henry IV -Queen Elizabeth had him written in Merry Wives of Windsor |
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Mask of Plague Doctors |
-popular "carnival costume" -spices placed in the beaks -Masques: popular |
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Dis Quotes |
- September 13th 1595 - Lord mayor of London: " great inconvenience" 1578- Thomas White sermon " the kind of plauge is sin" 1578- John Stockwood- " will not a filthy play" Twelfth Night- Puritans get shaft |
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Reason Puritans dis theatre |
1. Theatre kept people off work as plays were performed in the afternoon. 2. they felt theaters were gross 3. Frequent plague outbreaks - if 30 - 40+ died theaters were closed. 4. Believe it encouraged crime and vice. 5. Thought it was a bad example. |
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Expired lease |
After James B. died Giles Allen refused a new lease. However a clause allowed for Burbage's friends to dismantle and take back materials to build. The parts were stolen in the night and Giles sued but the case was dismissed |
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Thomas Platter |
The first play in the Globe Theatre was recorded in 1599 and was Julius Caesar. This was recorded by the Swiss tourist in his diary as he saw a play with some 15 actors. |
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Lord Mayors |
Plot of land in Shoreditch was on a busy North Road. Outside of play - haters, Lord mayors, jurisdiction which was most of London - except Blackfriars and Southwark |
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Original globe |
1599 "The Theatre"- 1576 in Shoreditch on land leased from Giles Allen who was a staunch Puritan opposed to all the atricle activities, but was unable to stop James Burbage from building "the theatre" - design was similar to a small Roman amphitheatre. |
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Theatre Schedule |
- open to all classes - about 21,000 Londoners went a week it was closed on Sundays. - of all patrons at the time 1250 were Groundlings. This was pointed out in Henry VIII " Tis ten to one that this play will never please, All that are here. Some come to take their ease. And sleep." |
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Occupancy |
-Up to 3000 -$$$ from hiring out the globe and from ticket sales. |
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Globe stairs |
Made to resemble those at Elizabeth I's hunting lodge in Chingford Essex |
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Theo Crosby |
- architect for new globe. Signed on for designing a brochure. -" I started by putting a toe in the water and the next thing I knew - I was swimming." - globe was the first building since 1666 with a thatched roof. |
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Brewery plaque |
1949 - Sam Wanamaker was sad that the plaque was all that was of the globe. 1970 - Sam founded what would be the Shakespeare globe trust. 1987 - building began on the site 6 meter deep foundation. 1993 - construction began on globe itself December 18th 1993 - Sam Wanamaker died with only 12 of15 bays erected. 1994 - 1997 - plaster work and thatching. |
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Reconstruction of globe |
Not a circle - excavation of Rose Theatre in 1989 revealed buildings are polygons. - in the same year a small portion of the globe with excavated to reveal the globe was a d20 with a diameter of 100 feet. |
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Richard and Cuthbert Burbage |
James Burbage was their dad. -Cuthbert with a long standing assistant to Shakespeare -the globe was built in 1599 by Burbage. -Richard was the most famous Elizabethan Shakespeare actor. - 50% of earnings went to burbages - 50% was divided among William Shakespeare, Will Kempe, Thomas Pope, John Heminge, and Augustine Phillips. |
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Techniques used in reconstruction |
- Green oak - two dimensional bays - lime plaster mix, walls covered in white lime wash - roof is water reed thatch |
