The Globe Theatre was a London Theatre, which was built in the year 1599. The English actor, Richard Burbage, in partnership with William Shakespeare, the renowned poet, and playwright, built the theatre.
             William Shakespeare was born in 1564. In 1588 he left the town of Wickshire and went to London. Here in London, he met the brothers Richard and Cuthbert Burbage. These men were also actors or players at the time. The land that was used for building the Globe Theatre upon was previously used for a playhouse called The Theatre. This theatre closed, and the idea to build the Globe in its place was now to become a reality.
             In 1616, William Shakespeare died having retired to Stratford-upon-Avon in 1613. When he died, he left a ring to Richard Burbage as a token of their friendship. The reopened theatre stayed open for nearly thirty years before it was closed by the Puritans in 1642. All playhouses in London were closed down at the time. In 1644, the theatre was pulled down to build tenements, and its foundations were buried. Before all the theatres were closed, there were many places in London to see a play. The playhouses also located on Bankside were the Rose, the Hope, the Swan, and many other amphitheaters.
             The Globe Theatre was left undisturbed until 1949 when a man named Sam Wanamaker came to London to look for evidence of the Globe. Wanamaker was born in 1919 and died in 1993, in London. The only evidence he found of the Globe was a plaque on a brewery wall. In 1969 Wanamaker met Theo Crosby, who later was the architect of the new Globe. A year later Wanamaker founded the Globe Playhouse Trust with the main goals of the rebuilding of the Globe. This Trust raised funds to support the construction of a new Globe Theatre. The Southwark Council offers the Globe Playhouse Trust a 1.2-acre site, beside the River Thames and across from St. Paul's Cathedral. This new site was only two hundred yards from the site that t...