The Globe Theater was a popular source of entertainment in the Elizabethan period. Play-goers
             were thrilled by the excitement and unexpected in Shakespeare's plays that helped to ease the
             stress of everyday life. Plays were performed at theaters across Europe, but probably the most
             famous playhouse of the Elizabethan period was London's Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was
             a building that presented Shakespeare's plays to a variety of people until its
             destruction and closure by the Puritans in the mid-sixteen hundreds.
             James Burbage, a famous architect, and actor of the time built the first playhouse in 1576
             named the Theatre that comes from the Greek word theatron meaning viewing place (Chrisp
             9). The Theatre was located in Shoreditch about a mile north of London (Allison 19). The land on
             which the Theatre stood was rented from a man named Giles Allen. James Burbage and Giles
             Allen had agreed to a twenty-one-year lease on the land, but when the lease expired in April of
             1597, the Burbage's faced major problems. Giles Allen wanted the Burbages to pay a vast amount
             of money to renew the lease, but with the death of James Burbage in February of 1597, his sons
             had to face the landlord's dispute by themselves (Chrisp 10). Not wanting the Theatre to close
             because of their lack of money, the Burbage brothers took matters into their own hands. They
             outwitted the landlord taking the theater apart piece by piece and moving it across the Thames
             River during the Christmas holiday of 1598. The area they had selected for the new theater was
             called Bankside in the district of Southwark (Morley 28). Southwark was an entertainment center
             complete with bear baiting arenas, archery ranges, taverns, and theaters (Allison 25).The
             relocated theater was renamed the Globe Theater which meant "There is nothing in the whole
             round world this theater can not set before your eyes (Constabile)." The reassembling of the
             th...