Tuesday - March 10, 2009

Remains of Shakespeare’s first Globe Theatre unearthed in East London. AWESOME!!!

Hey ... What a great find!

I’m not a huge fan and to be honest never have been able to grasp the language in the plays.
But I am impressed with things like this when they are found.  And I like Archaeology. Except the spelling of same of which I’ve noticed two ways to do so.
But there was ONLY ONE GLOBE THEATER.  or, Theatre for the Brits.

Remains of Shakespeare’s first Globe Theatre unearthed in East London

By Graham Smith
Last updated at 10:10 AM on 10th March 2009

The remains of William Shakespeare’s first theatre have been found in East London.

Archaelogists from the Museum Of London unearthed what they believe to be part of the original curved wall of the first Globe Theatre in Shoreditch.

The team made their discovery a metre and a half below street level last summer.

Since then they have uncovered the Tudor structure’s gravel surface, the area where the audience would have stood that sloped down towards the stage.

They have also found a fragment of pottery of a man with beard that resembles Shakespeare.

But the stage itself is now thought to be buried under a housing development.

The theatre was built outside the city in 1576, in what were then known as the ‘suburbs of sin’, the team’s leader Taryn Nixon told the BBC.
Enlarge Archaeologist Heather Knight walks on the site of what is thought to be London’s first purpose built playhouse

There are plans to build a new theatre on the Shoreditch site with an opening date of 2012

How it looked: A drawing of the Globe Theatre. It was built with materials dismantled from the East London theatre built by James Burbage

‘The Lord Mayor actually passed a decree that there shouldn’t be any theatrical performances in the city,’ she said.

‘So just on the edge of the city is actually, classically, where you find all the slightly wilder, slightly more fun activities going on.’

Twenty-five years after its construction, the theatre was dismantled piece by piece and rebuilt on London’s South Bank.

In the 1990s the Globe Theatre was reconstructed at this location and has hosted Shakespearean productions ever since.

There are now plans to build a new theatre on the Shoreditch site of the first playhouse with an opening date of 2012.

Meanwhile, a 400-year-old painting thought to be the only surviving portrait of Shakespeare from his lifetime was today unveiled.

The picture, painted in 1610, six years before the playwright’s death, has been owned by the Cobbe family since the early 18th century.

But for three centuries they were unsure if the subject was Britain’s greatest writer. At one point it was thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh, although experts now believe it was indeed the Bard.

Elsewhere on Monday, a newly identified portrait of the Bard was unveiled.

The 400-year-old painting is thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare painted during his lifetime.

It was painted in 1610, six years before the playwright’s death, at the age of 46.

There has long been controversy over his portraits with the accuracy of many being called into question.
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BARD

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