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Shakespeare was not the builder, owner or manager of the Globe Theatre. He had money invested in it. Therefore he did not open the original Globe Theatre when it opened in 1599. Richard and Cuthbert Burbage did.
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The Queen often visited the theatre and only those who paid money to get in.
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Shakespeare was not the builder, owner or manager of the Globe Theatre. He had money invested in it. Therefore he did not open the original Globe Theatre when it opened in 1599. Richard and Cuthbert Burbage did.
by people going to plays
5 pence
The Queen often visited the theatre and only those who paid money to get in.
Of the playhouses in which Shakespeare owned a share in, the Blackfriars was the most successful. Although it had about a quarter of the capacity of the Globe, the Blackfriars had much higher ticket prices and always sold out. It also could be used summer and winter and in bad weather. Because the sharers made a lot more money out of the Blackfriars, Shakespeare started writing his plays toward the end of his career with the Blackfriars, not the Globe, in mind.
William Shakespeare invested money in the Globe Theatre. The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, on land owned by Thomas Brend.
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The Globe Theater.Shakespeare was one of a number of men who put up money and property to fund the construction of a new theatre in 1599. Half of the cost was paid for by the brothers Cuthbert and Richard Burbage. The builder's name was Peter Street. The theatre's name was The Globe Playhouse.It was not "Shakespeare's Globe Theatre". That is the name of the replica of the Globe opened in 1997, a famous theatre to be sure, but not likely the one you are thinking of.Globe Theater
Shakespeare invested in the Globe Theatre in 1599, five years after he invested in the Acting Company The Lord Chamberlain's Men. The suggestion that he squirrelled away his money for those five years so he could buy a share in the theatre building is ridiculous, because, first, nobody knew five years earlier that the Burbages would need investors in the Globe since they had two perfectly good theatres already, and second, Shakespeare had a lot more money than he put into the Globe. In fact, two years before investing in the Globe, he spent a whack of money buying the second-largest house in Stratford-upon-Avon for his wife to live in.
No, he most certainly did not. Shakespeare had nothing to do with the construction of the Globe Theatre, although he invested money in it. An architect and builder called Peter Street designed and built it at the instruction of Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, two of Shakespeare's associates.
Shakespeare did not build the Globe Theatre and did not get the wood. The carpenter's name was Peter Street, and the timber came from the old Theatre Playhouse, the property of Richard and Cuthbert Burbage. Although the Burbages brought the wood and most of the money, Shakespeare kicked in some cash to buy plaster, nails, paint, etc.