... to be performed. The theatre is located in London and it looks to me that basically all they ever play there is the classic Romeo and Juliet and something called Much Ado about nothing. The globe was originally built to hold around 2,000 to 3,000 people in it. The stage of the Globe Theater was at a level of 43 feet in 27 or 28 ... feet deep that was off the ground in about 5 feet. The original globe stood until June 29th 1613 when a cannon fired during a performance of Henry the VIII set the roof on fire and it burned down the whole building ... ...

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... company was really just the Lord Chamberlain's Company with Lawrence Fletcher added. The King's Men accomplished great success, for they were London's top theatrical company. The King's Men excelled for about twenty-five years. Shakespeare's Retirement Shakespeare and his company were the most successful in London. Although they were the most successful, Shakespeare was not known as a wealthy man, but his ... plays led to great tragedies Shakespeare produced later on. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, As You Like It, Henry V, Juli...

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... by far the most memorable theatre in England. "In the early days of The Globe, Shakespeare wrote three of his best romantic comedies: Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing. All are known for their highly improbable plots" (Delville). Shakespeare, however, could make the characters in his plays so believable and human, that the plots seemed perfectly reasonable. After many ... comedies, Shakespeare wrote the Roman tragedy Julius Caesar. Although many stories had been done about Caesar, and the story was a legend in England, Shakespeare's version surprised many people ...

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