Shakespeare Again!

After a (not so) short walk from the train station we got to the New Shakespeare Globe Theatre. The Shakespeare Globe is a theatre that performs some of the famous playwright's plays, also it is a museum of The Globe theatre, the theatre where Shakespeare was once employed. The museum was a little meh... But the tour that we found leaving was very, very good. They started telling us about the history of that area in Elizabethan times. How people lived on the other bank and would have to pay ferrymen to take them over the Thames ( because there was a curfew on the London Bridge) to the theatres, brothels and bear baitings on the other side.Then we went down to the site of The Rose, the rival of The Globe which was pretty crazy. It was found when the previous building was knocked down to make way for a new office building. As a compromise they made the office building three stories higher so that the archaeological site could remain undisturbed. It is now kept under water to preserve it. Then he took us to the the site of the original Globe. Unfortunately it is less well preserved than The Rose site. Interestingly, the remade Globe is the only building with a thatched roof that has been allowed in London since the Great Fire.

Location:Shakespeare Globe and Surrounds