The Globe Theatre

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's Playing Company, and was destroyed by a fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named Shakespeare’s globe, opened in 1997.

On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry V111. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except one man.

Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642. It was pulled down in 1644.