Shakespeare's Globe
Oak-and-thatch Elizabethan theatre replica on the Bankside, staging Shakespeare under the open sky.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Shakespeare's Globe in London opens with a stage cannon during a 1613 performance of Henry VIII, an audience escape, and the one recorded casualty's unlikely fix. From there it follows the theatre's fall from view over the following centuries, down to a small plaque on a brewery wall that wasn't even in the right place. You'll hear about Sam Wanamaker, the American actor who found that plaque in 1949 and spent decades chasing a faithful rebuild on the Bankside. Listen for the detail about what still fires inside every performance today.
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