The original Globe Theatre, which opened in 1599 and was used to stage William Shakespeare’s plays, burned to the ground in 1613, its thatch accidentally set alight by a cannon during a performance of Henry VIII. The rebuilt theater was closed in 1642 and pulled down in 1644. Its third and modern iteration opened in 1997.
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