Globe Theaters were a popular source of entertainment in the Elizabethan period. Play-goers were thrilled by the excitement and unexpected in Shakespeare’s plays that helped to ease the stress of everyday life. Plays were performed at theaters across Europe, but probably the most famous playhouse of the Elizabethan period was London’s Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was a building with a unique history that presented Shakespeare’s plays to a variety of people …showed first 75 words of 1710 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1710 total…is believed to have been the very first play ever performed at the original Globe Theater (Doyle 332).Times have changed and modern technology has advanced present day theaters, but this new Globe Theater presents plays in a historic manner just like in the sixteen hundreds. With the new Globe Theater, Shakespeare’s plays can once again be a popular source of entertainment to those in the twenty first century just as it was long ago.