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THE GLOBE First of all, one of the most popular theatre in London is The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company, on land owned by Thomas Brend and was desroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed by an Ordinance issued on 6 September 1642. A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named «Shakespeare’s Globe», opened in 1997. The Globe stands a few hundred yards from its original site. From 1909, the current Gielgud Theatre was called «Globe Theatre», until it was renamed (in honour of John Gielgud) in 1994.

There also four famous theatres in London of notable beauty: the Theatre, the Curtain Theatre, the Rose Theatre and the Swan Theatre. In each of them a different play is daily performed to the audience

THE SWAN THEATRE Of all theatres the largest and the most magnificent is the Swan Theatre: for it accommodates three thousand people. It is built of a mass of flint stones, and is supported by wooden columns painted in such an excellent imitation of marble that it is able to deceive even the most cunning people. The actual date of the building and opening of the Swan Theatre is uncertain, but it was probably about 1596. Built by Francis Landley the Rose Theatre was probably opened in 1597 The Rosewas an Elizabethan theatre and the first of several playhouses to be situated in Bankside , Southwark , in a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London ‘s civic authorities

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THE ROSE Built by Francis Landley the Rose Theatre was probably opened in 1597 The Rosewas an Elizabethan theatre and the first of several playhouses to be situated in Bankside , Southwark , in a liberty outside the jurisdiction of the City of London ‘s civic authorities.

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THE CURTAIN THEATRE Built by James Burbage the Curtain Theatre was London’s second playhouse, opened in 1577, the year after the Theatre. There is no definite information as to who built it. Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch (in Curtain Road, part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London. It was the second permanent theatre ever built in England, after the Red Lion, and the first successful one. Built by actor-manager James Burbage, near the family home in Holywell Street, Theatre is considered the first theatre built in London for the sole purpose of theatrical productions. Theatre’s history includes a number of important acting troupes including the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, which employed Shakespeare as actor and playwright. After a dispute with the landlord, theatre was dismantled and the timbers used in the construction of the Globe Theatre on Bankside. Every day at two o’clock in the afternoon in the city of London two or three comedies are perfomed at separate places.

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