A radically different experience than we are used to nowadays

Cheap and popular

Standing up, mostly

There was food, drink, eggs…

The Aristocracy had their own private performances

No curtain: interaction with the audience

A theatre of language rather than illusion

Predominance of convention over realism

Mix of genres

Indifference towards the play as a work of art:

The plays were not printed or repeated.

Theatre as business:
spectacular and sensational

No female or coloured actors

SIR ANDREW
But it becomes me well enough, does ’t not?
SIR TOBY BELCH
Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I
hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
and spin it off. (TWELFTH NIGHT: ACT 1, SCENE 3)

MALVOLIO
By my life, this is my lady's hand PETRUCHIO
these be her Who knows not where a wasp does
very C's, her U's and her T's and wear his sting? In his tail.
thus makes she her KATHARINA
great P's. (TWELFTH NIGHT: ACT In his tongue.
2, SCENE 5) PETRUCHIO
Whose tongue?
KATHARINA
Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.
PETRUCHIO
What, with my tongue in your tail? (THE TAMING OF
THE SHREW: ACT 2, SCENE 1)
 THE ORIGINAL GLOBE

Built between 1597 and 1599 in Southwark, next to the Thames

Comissioned by the theatrical entrepreneur Richard Burbage

Shakespeare was a partner with a tenth share
 THE ORIGINAL GLOBE

Meaning of the flags

Red: History pjay
Black: tragedy
White: comedy
 THE NEW GLOBE

SAM WANAMAKER (1919-1983)

EL NUEVO GLOBE: ESPÍRITU, FIEL Y DEMOCRÁTICO