Description Built in 1599 to house Shakespeare's company, the original Globe Theatre was where many of Shakespeare's plays were presented for the first time.
It was damaged in a fire in 1613, and destroyed in the English Civil War of 1643.
The Globe Theater was rebuilt in the 1990s on a site near the location of the original.
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