AROUND THE GLOBE OF SHAKESPEARE

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. (Samuel Johnson)

Lots has been said and written about William Shakespeare, even big personalities such as Samuel Johnson and Anthony Burgess brought to the world attention the immense and incomparable sensibility and extraordinary beauty of the works of the most popular poet and playwright of the whole time. Shakespeare is a well known icon, everybody knows his importance although there are so few facts that have been in reality revealed about him; we adore his arts, his verses make us dream, through his masterpieces we learn to love him, but what we really know about his life?

Situated on the south bank area of the River Thames in London, rises the most important and representative structure dedicates to the exploration and examination of Shakespeare’s work: Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. This inimitable reassessment of the original Globe Theatre built in 1599 where William Shakespeare and his playing company used to perform, is a unique resource of knowledge and experience that can bring you back to the XVI century. Strongly wanted by the American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre, which merge on the whole culture and show, was entirely completed in 1997 and since then it has been a real success confirmed by the worldwide consent.

The structure has been carefully studied to be accessible to every strata of society and it is remained entirely faithful to the antique initial model to give the genuine and fascinating atmosphere of the Elizabethan Era. The Globe is a complex of three structures that include the Globe Theatre, the Globe Exhibition and the Globe Education which primary aim is to expand the art of the big English playwright and poet all around the world.

Among all of them the main attraction is the Globe Theatre. It boasts a professional theatrical company that regularly perform to honor Shakespeare’s works and that every year rediscovers and studies the exclusive relationship established between audience and actors in this authentic structure where, exactly how happened 400 years before, the audience can have the choice to follow the show remaining seated or stand in the middle of the stalls. A real and singular jump in the past; you can have the possibility to see and touch what Shakespeare really lived, what really expired him, the theatre he wrote for. According to the British director John Madden, Shakespeare knew what worked with an audience, he could give you anything you were looking for; sex and violence, classical tragedy, comic spirit. It was in the Elizabethan theatre that those people were inventing, unconsciously, show biz, our modern form of entertainment.

Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is organizing a fabulous guided tours through this spectacular theatre, around poetry and history, from Globe Theatre to the Globe Exhibition where you will have the opportunity to see the most detailed exposition devoted to the exploration of the one of the most famous poet life. A tour that, thanks to the eccentricity of Elizabethan costumes revision, to the Renaissance tools and much more, will lead every tourist in a exclusive and bewitching parallel reality. The fanciful flight through the XVI century lived by William Shakespeare, may conclude its journey with Globe Education, a workshop where the most brave will be on the boards of the most admired and followed stage ever, that made the rich crying and the poor dreaming.