Excavations at the Globe Theatre

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Excavations at the Globe Theatre
Excavations at the Globe Theatre

"In 1989 the Museum of London carried out an archeological evaluation on this site and uncovered the remains of a small part of the Globe Theatre as well as other archeological features and deposits.
The numerous later buildings which once stood on his site since the demolition of The Globe have severely damaged the archeological remains leaving only a small part of the theatre surviving."

§ Link to location with Google Maps
§ Shakespeare's Theatre Company had previously moved from Shoreditch. SE1 local Website includes an audio file with Professor Gordon MacMullan talking about the evidence historians have found about the move from Shoreditch.
 "So what seems to have happened in 1598 is that Shakespeare's company had a falling out with their landlord and the way he told the story in the Law Courts - one night the company came, took the theatre down and took it away.
 And when he turned-up in the morning he found just the foundations. And he was frustrated. We don't know how true all this is ..."
 "What we do know is that they left Shoreditch and they moved the makings of their theatre to Southwark and they built The Globe just up the road from where the reconstructed Globe now it."
[...]
 "The deed of transfer of the land in Southwark lists the land the Globe would be put on. And makes it clear that the company could build what they wanted to build on that site. So that allowed them, for example, not just to have the theatre but to build a pub on the back that was the theatre bar. And they also made some money from that."

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Taken on: August 11, 2018
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