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 with a unique history that presented Shakespeare's plays to a variety of people until its

destruction and the closure of the theaters 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

was being performed. Green stood for a comedy, and black meant a tragedy was going to be

in 1996. The new theater was christened by Queen Elizabeth II in May of 1997, and its very first

audience causing the actors to be surrounded by spectators on three sides (Doyle 15). The stage

play, they would hurl food such as apple cores at the actors (Chrisp 20).A cutpurse,or thief, was

1642, the Puritans finally won their battle and succeeded in closing the theaters for good (Chrisp

paid just to enter the theater, but if you wanted to sit down, it cost another penny at the stairs

environment in which people could thoroughly enjoy themselves regardless of the lack of modern

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