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The Globe Exhibition

Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London, SE1 9DT Full details & map

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A permanent exhibition about the history of the Bankside site on which the Elizabethan Globe Theatre has been rebuilt using 400-year-old materials and techniques, plus elegantly displayed costumes from early productions in the new theatre and a major exhibition devoted to Shakespeare. Filmed video interviews are supplemented with touchscreen exhibits explaining Elizabethan special effects; visitors can also edit a page of 'Hamlet' to their own specifications and print the result. The tone of the exhibition is simple enough for the Shakespeare novice but peppered with nuggets to surprise the best informed student. The visit includes a guided tour of the theatre unless access is restricted because a matinee performances or special event is taking place, in which case admission includes a visit to the nearby archaeological site of the Rose, Bankside's first playhouse.

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Shakespeare's Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, Bankside, London SE1 9DT

Shakespeare's Globe

The original Globe Theatre, where many of William Shakespeare's plays were first staged and which he co-owned, burned to the ground in 1613 during...

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020 7401 9919

http://www.shakespeares-globe.org

Oct-Apr: 10am-5.30pm daily. May-early Oct: 9am-12.30pm (exhibition & Globe Theatre tour), 1-5pm (exhibition & Rose Theatre tour) Mon-Sat; 9am-11.30am (exhibition & Globe Theatre tour), noon-5pm (exhibition & Rose Theatre tour) Sun. Opening hours are subje

Exhibition and Globe Theatre tour: £13.50, £12 seniors, £11 students, £8 children (5-15), £36 family ticket (2 adults, 2/3 children); exhibition and Rose Theatre tour: £9/£7.50/£6/£25

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