How and when was Shakespeare's globe theatre ruined?

Answer 1

It wasn't. There have been three theatres in London called the Globe. The one called "Shakespeare's Globe Theatre" was built in 1997 and is still going strong. Some people might think that the productions put on there have ruined it, but if so that is their opinion.

The other two Globe Theatres were built during Shakespeare's lifetime, but neither of them were associated mainly with Shakespeare. They might have been thought of as "Burbage's Globe Theatre". Anyway, the first was built in 1599 and burned down on June 29, 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. The second Globe was planned before the embers of the first one were cool, and was built by 1614. It was built with a tile roof rather than a thatched one for greater fire safety. However no roof could protect it from the English Civil War. The Parliamentarians banned all theatres in 1642, so the Globe had to close down. After a couple of years of lack of profit and no sign of the Commonwealth going away anytime soon, they tore it down to build housing instead.