Why was the Globe Theater called the wooden O?

Shakespear's nickname for the theater was the "wooden o".

Shakespeare refers to "this wooden O" in the prologue to Henry V.

As it was a theatre in-the-round and made of timber

the globe theater is shaped like an ''o''

Shakespeare was part owner of two theatres, The Globe Theatre and The Blackfriars. He called the Globe Theatre the Wooden "O" in his play Henry V because it was built almost circular with an open courtyard in the middle. The Blackfriars was an indoor theatre, designed very much like theatres today with a thrust stage and seating both on the floor and in galleries. The Globe Theater.

The Globe was nicknamed the Wooden O.

Because it looked like an O and it was made out of wood.

he didn't nessecerly quite. There was a play going on and it took place in the Globe or the " wooden O" ( which was William Shakespeares theater. He built it) and it dealt with fire and it burned down. After that he retired.

Shakespeare described his theatre as "the wooden "O". (letter o) in the Chorus to Henry V. But he was probably talking about the Curtain theatre when he wrote those lines. It didn't matter anyway because most of the outdoor theatres were shaped like doughnuts including the Globe, Curtain, Theatre, Rose, Hope, and Swan. So Shakespeare's phrase isn't necessarily about the Globe at all and certainly never became a nickname for the Globe.

The nickname is the Wooden 'O' It could also be "Bard Hall" guess

The Globe theatre and the Wooden "O"

In the prologue to Henry V, Shakespeare talks about a "wooden O". But that was not the Globe Theatre he was talking about. Henry V was written before the Globe was built. He was probably talking about The Curtain Playhouse.

In the prologue to Henry V, Shakespeare talks about a "wooden O". But that was not the Globe Theatre he was talking about. Henry V was written before the Globe was built. He was probably talking about The Curtain Playhouse.

Shakespeare's Wooden O was the Globe Theatre in London in which he had a financial interest. It was rebuilt after being accidentally burnt down (in 1613) but was then closed down by the Puritans in 1642 and demolished two years later to build housing.

Theatres in London were only called a "wooden o" once, by Shakespeare, in the Prologue to his play Henry V. He was talking about the theatre in which the play was being performed, which was the First Globe. This theatre was built on a wooden frame, with lath and plaster, giving it that Tudor framed look, with a thatched roof. It contained a roofed stage surrounded by a circle of galleries, also roofed. The stage thrust into a central unroofed courtyard. Because it was round and hollow it looked a bit like the letter "o".

It refers to the shape of the outdoor theatres of the time: a ring of galleries with a space in the centre open to the sky. They looked a bit like the letter "O". The common idea that it refers to the Globe Theatre is in error; the expression is from the Prologue of Shakespeare's play Henry V, which was written before the Globe was even built. When the play was first performed, the "wooden O" in question was The Curtain Theatre.

"This wooden O" is not a nickname but a quotation from the Prologue to Henry V: "may we cram within this wooden O the very casques which did affright the air at Agincourt?" He is probably talking about the Globe Theatre here which was built as a twenty-sided polygon with a roof around the galleries on the outside and no roof over the courtyard in the middle. From above, it would look sort of like the letter "O"

The "Wooden O" is not a particular theatre. Most of the outdoor theatres of Shakespeare's day were built in the shape of an "O". In the prologue to Henry V, Shakespeare describes the theatre as a "wooden O" but he means just a theatre. The Rose, Theatre, Hope, Curtain, Globe and Swan were all built to this shape. As it happens, the theatre he was talking about at the time Henry V was first performed would have been the Curtain. We don't know when it was built.

In The Tempest, Prospero has a line containing the phrase, "the great globe itself" but if it is a reference to the playhouse, it is as a pun. The Chorus in Henry V mentions the 'wooden O" in conjunction with the playhouse, but the playhouse in question was not the Globe. The play was first performed before the company built The Globe.

In Henry V's prologue, he calls the theatre a "wooden o". This expression was probably a one-off and not a nickname, since he only uses it the once.

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Cheerios replaced the decreasingly popular wooden o's cereal in 1592. That's as accurate as any other answer. There was no particular thing or place called "the wooden o" which could be destroyed. It is a phrase from Shakespeare's play Henry V, which refers to whatever theatre the play is being played in. The first playhouse to be called the "wooden o" was the Curtain playhouse, but it applies equally to the local community theatre should your community company decide to put on Henry V

"The wooden O" is a phrase from Shakespeare's play Henry V, as follows "Who could cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?" The phrase means a theatre, any theatre, not a specific one. It refers to whatever theatre the play is being played in. When the play Henry V was first performed, it was performed at a theatre called The Curtain playhouse. The Curtain is believed to have been built at the expense of James Burbage. It is not known who the contractor was who did the actual building. It may have been Peter Street, who afterward was the builder of a number of other playhouses including the Globe and Fortune. The Curtain (like most of the outdoor theatres of the time), was built out of wood roughly in the shape of the letter O, which explains why theatres might be described as a "wooden O"

They had a large hole in the roof so light could get in. these were called wooden-O playhouses

very carefully It was, in fact, built from the timbers and lumber of the old, dismantled Theatre playhouse in Shoreditch, which was owned by the Burbages, and used by the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the same company that occupied the Globe. It was a twenty-sided polygon, though it was often described as round, or as a "wooden O."