<P> The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre , The Theatre , which had been built by Richard Burbage 's father , James Burbage , in Shoreditch in 1576 . The Burbages originally had a 21 - year lease of the site on which the theatre was built but owned the building outright . However , the landlord , Giles Allen , claimed that the building had become his with the expiry of the lease . On 28 December 1598 , while Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home , carpenter Peter Street , supported by the players and their friends , dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it to Street 's waterfront warehouse near Bridewell . With the onset of more favourable weather in the following spring , the material was ferried over the Thames to reconstruct it as The Globe on some marshy gardens to the south of Maiden Lane , Southwark . While only a hundred yards from the congested shore of the Thames , the piece of land was situated close by an area of farmland and open fields . It was poorly drained and , notwithstanding its distance from the river , was liable to flooding at times of particularly high tide ; a `` wharf '' ( bank ) of raised earth with timber revetments had to be created to carry the building above the flood level . The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced , with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure ; the Globe was not merely the old Theatre newly set up at Bankside . It was probably completed by the summer of 1599 , possibly in time for the opening production of Henry V and its famous reference to the performance crammed within a `` wooden O '' . Dover Wilson , however , defers the opening date until September 1599 , taking the `` wooden O '' reference to be disparaging and thus unlikely to be used in the Globe 's inaugural staging . He suggests that a Swiss tourist 's account of a performance of Julius Caesar witnessed on 21 September 1599 describes the more likely first production . The first performance for which a firm record remains was Jonson 's Every Man out of His Humour -- with its first scene welcoming the `` gracious and kind spectators '' -- at the end of the year . </P>
<P> The Globe was built in 1599 using timber from an earlier theatre , The Theatre , which had been built by Richard Burbage 's father , James Burbage , in Shoreditch in 1576 . The Burbages originally had a 21 - year lease of the site on which the theatre was built but owned the building outright . However , the landlord , Giles Allen , claimed that the building had become his with the expiry of the lease . On 28 December 1598 , while Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home , carpenter Peter Street , supported by the players and their friends , dismantled The Theatre beam by beam and transported it to Street 's waterfront warehouse near Bridewell . With the onset of more favourable weather in the following spring , the material was ferried over the Thames to reconstruct it as The Globe on some marshy gardens to the south of Maiden Lane , Southwark . While only a hundred yards from the congested shore of the Thames , the piece of land was situated close by an area of farmland and open fields . It was poorly drained and , notwithstanding its distance from the river , was liable to flooding at times of particularly high tide ; a `` wharf '' ( bank ) of raised earth with timber revetments had to be created to carry the building above the flood level . The new theatre was larger than the building it replaced , with the older timbers being reused as part of the new structure ; the Globe was not merely the old Theatre newly set up at Bankside . It was probably completed by the summer of 1599 , possibly in time for the opening production of Henry V and its famous reference to the performance crammed within a `` wooden O '' . Dover Wilson , however , defers the opening date until September 1599 , taking the `` wooden O '' reference to be disparaging and thus unlikely to be used in the Globe 's inaugural staging . He suggests that a Swiss tourist 's account of a performance of Julius Caesar witnessed on 21 September 1599 describes the more likely first production . The first performance for which a firm record remains was Jonson 's Every Man out of His Humour -- with its first scene welcoming the `` gracious and kind spectators '' -- at the end of the year . </P>
where did they get the wood to build the original globe theatre
where did they get the wood to build the original globe theatre
timber from an earlier theatre , The Theatre , which had been built by Richard Burbage 's father , James Burbage , in Shoreditch in 1576
timber from an earlier theatre , The Theatre , which had been built by Richard Burbage 's father , James Burbage , in Shoreditch in 1576