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William Shakespeare, detail of an oil painting attributed to John Taylor, c. 1610. The portrait is called the “Chandos Shakespeare” because it once belonged to the duke of Chandos.
The original Globe Theatre was located in the Bankside area of London.12
The playhouse was constructed in 1599 by the sons of James Burbage, who used the timbers from their father's earlier playhouse, known as The Theatre, to build it. Archaeological evidence of the original Globe's foundations was discovered in 1989 on a site in Bankside, near where the modern reconstruction now stands.31