15. The Globe Theatre

The Globe was originally built in 1599 by William Shakespeare's company of actors. It was destroyed and rebuilt in the early 17th century. Shakespeare's Globe, a reconstruction of the old Globe, was finished in 1997.


The new Globe Theatre
Image: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0,
via Wikimedia Commons


Words

  • century = a period of a hundred years
  • destroyed = damaged completely so that you can't use it any more
  • originally  = at first
  • reconstruction = to build something like it again