1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hey y'all, I'm Eves and welcome to This 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Day in History Class, a podcast that proves history is 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 1: made every day. Today is June. The day was ju 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: The Globe Theater in London, famous for hosting performances of 6 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,760 Speaker 1: Shakespeare's plays, was destroyed in a fire. There were no 7 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: deaths in the fire and the theater was rebuilt the 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: next year. The Globe Theater was built in and Southern 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: on the south bank of the Thames. It was constructed 10 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: using wood from another venue called The Theater, which was 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: built in fifteen seventy six. The Globe Theater was open air, 12 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: about one ft in diameter, had three stories and could 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: hold three thousand people. There was standing room at the 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: base of the stage for the so called groundlings to 15 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 1: watch the show. The Lord Chamberlain's Men was an acting 16 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,559 Speaker 1: company that Shakespeare associated with during most of his writing career. 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Actors who were shareholders and the Lord Chamberlain's Men became 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: joint owners of the Globe Theater. The original owners were 19 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: Richard Bourbage, Cuthbert Bourbage, Shakespeare, John Hemmings, Augustine Phillips and 20 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: Thomas Pope. The first performance at the theater took place 21 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: in late fift Most of Shakespeare's plays after were staged 22 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: at the Globe Theater. Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth were 23 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: some of the plays that were performed at the Globe 24 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: over the next decade. On June, the play All Is True, 25 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: now known as Henry the Eighth, was performed at the Globe. 26 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: Shakespeare wrote the play, which follows the story of King 27 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: Henry the Eighth of England, with John Fletcher. Shakespeare relied 28 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: on Raphael Holland's Chronicles, a description of British history to 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: write the play. During this performance, a theatrical cannon that 30 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,760 Speaker 1: was set off misfired and ignited. I did the theater's 31 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: wooden beams and thatching. The whole place was a fire 32 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: hazard because of its use of timber and thatching. There 33 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 1: weren't safety inspections and there weren't plans for evacuation in 34 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: case of a fire. There are several eyewitness accounts of 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: the event. According to diplomat and politicians Sir Henry Watton's account, 36 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 1: the cannon was set off when King Henry entered for 37 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: a mask scene at Cardinal was Ley's residence. When the 38 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: thatching started to smoke, people continued paying attention to the 39 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 1: show and thought it was just quote idle smoke, But 40 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 1: the fire spread quickly. Watt instead that a man's clothes 41 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: caught on fire and were put out with the bottle 42 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,239 Speaker 1: of ale, and according to a letter written by John Chamberlain, 43 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:44,399 Speaker 1: visitors escaped through quote two narrow doors. It took less 44 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: than two hours for the entire theater to be destroyed 45 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:51,239 Speaker 1: by the blaze. Nobody mentioned any deaths in the contemporary accounts, 46 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,359 Speaker 1: and there are no records of any otherwise. It took 47 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: a year to rebuild the globe. In the new theater, 48 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: the roof was tiled rather than matched. The globe was 49 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: shut down by the Puritans in sixty two and destroyed. 50 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: Within the next few years, A reconstruction based on the 51 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: two original Globe theaters opened in London. I'm Eve Jeffcote 52 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: and hopefully you know a little more about history today 53 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: than you did yesterday. 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