Globe Theatre Opens
1599
The Lord Chamberlain's Men, having dismantled their old theater and ferried its timbers across the frozen Thames, opened the Globe Theatre on Bankside in Southwark. Twenty feet from a bearbaiting pit and surrounded by brothels, the new round wooden O would host the first productions of Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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