#195: All the World’s a Stage at Shakespeare’s Globe
It’s called Shakespeare’s Globe, but it’s not Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The Globe Theatre of Shakespeare’s day is long gone, burnt to the ground during a performance of Henry VIII more than 400 years ago in 1613. A cannon fired from the stage lit the matchstick-like thatch roof on fire. Although the theatre was quickly rebuilt the next year on the old foundations, Puritans in Parliament shut the theatre down and demolished …