Globe Theater

1. The theater in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed. Shakespeare himself acted at the Globe. It burned and was rebuilt shortly before Shakespeare's death and was finally pulled down in the middle of the seventeenth century.

Notes

In the late twentieth century a reconstruction of the theater was built near its original site.

Example Sentences

“Of course, I can check up on it at the Globe Theater,” she decided in her most professional manner.

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What a library it was—that library up among the flies (if they had such things) of the old Globe Theater!

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