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It depends what you mean by "Shakespeare's Theatre". As 1599 commenced The Lord Chamberlain's Men, the company of which Shakespeare was a member, were playing in The Curtain, a typical large public playhouse consisting of a thrust stage and a circle or more accurately a polygon of roofed seats in three tiers around it. The roof was open to the sky, where the light could enter and illuminate the stage, which was covered with a roof. Patrons could stand in the open courtyard and watch the play. In later 1599 a new playhouse called the Globe was built in a different part of town. The Globe looked very much like The Curtain. Both playhouses were primarily owned by the brothers Richard and Cuthbert Burbage, although Shakespeare and others had minor shares in The Globe.

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