1599
Shakespeare's Globe Opens
London · England · Cultural · Early Modern
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The players dismantled the Theatre in Shoreditch and ferried its beams across the Thames; Julius Caesar and likely Hamlet were among the first plays staged.
The wooden 'O' held three thousand spectators until a stage cannon set its thatch alight in 1613.
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