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WHAT IS SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE IN LONDON? WHAT IS ITS HISTORY AND ITS MISSION? //Answer prepared by Maddie L.// “Shakespeare’s Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare’s work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through means of performance and education,” according to the Shakespeare’s Globe website. There are three sections of the Globe. There is the Globe Theatre Company, Shakespeare’s Globe Exhibition and Globe Education. They are all working together to seek further “experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance,” as written on their website. They are celebrating that the greatest dramatic poet in the English language lived and worked in London. The Globe is a major London tourist attraction. The Globe gets no money from the government. The Globe Trust’s activities are all self-financed. The activities are balanced so that, their profits can cover the deficits, and so that they can keep pushing forward. The Shakespeare Globe Trust was founded by Sam Wanamaker in 1970. “The Old Globe Theatre was demolished in 1644. It took the vision and drive of Sam Wanamaker to initiate the development of a New Globe Theatre,” says the William Shakespeare website. The website explains that the site of the old Globe was rediscovered in the 20th century, and the reconstruction of it is near it. The Globe Trust is “dedicated to the reconstruction of an education center and permanent exhibition,” says the Shakespeare’s Globe website. In 1987 the building began and was completed ten years later in 1997. The//Shakespeare’s Globe book says that the reconstruction includes a thatched roof, a hatchway which a player can be lowered from, the cannon hatch, the galleries, the tiring-house (where the players dress for their parts), the balcony, the trapdoor leading beneath the stage, the great columns on the stage, and the yard which now has an exhibit inside. The roof is the first thatched roof allowed in London since the Great Fire of 1666. The New Globe is based of a similar theatre, the Swan, because there were absolutely no pictures in existence today from inside the original Globe. Today, “Shakespeare’s Globe Trust is dedicated to the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance,” states their website. The Globe has three ways of fulfilling its purpose. First, they did the reconstruction of Globe Theatre, and created an exhibition of Shakespeare and theatre in his time in the center. Second, they have renowned productions. And last, the study of Shakespeare in performance. The Globe works hard at its mission of complete and thorough study of Shakespeare. //   Works Cited Alchin, Linda. "The Old Globe Theater History." //William Shakepeare. 01 Feb 2007. 12 Apr 2009 .

"Background." //Shakespeare's Globe//. 2009. Front of Mind. 12 Apr 2009 .

Forward, Toby. //Sheakespeare's Globe//. Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2005. Print. //