WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare was dropdown and died in 1616. dropdown as a young man as an actor. He joined a company of Players, but it was not until dropdown In 1599, Shakespeare and his friends built the famous Globe dropdown It was here that his best known plays – dropdown The building of a theatre dropdown It had been the custom dropdown in the churchyard or in the courtyard of an inn: in any public place, in fact, dropdown The Globe Theatre itself was like an inn. It had dropdown a picture of Hercules carrying the world on his shoulders. It was built around an open courtyard, a three-storey building, dropdown The performances were held in the afternoon about two o’clock. The flag fluttering on the tower of the theatre was a sign that dropdown Handbills were printed which advertised the play. The prices for admission were 3d., 6d., 9d. and 1s. dropdown and dearer if you wished to have a seat in one of the galleries or balconies.