Where can i find a blueprint for the globe theatre. i need it for English class.?

Question

I have tried googling it an i couldn't find anything very good.

Answer 1

I don't want to argue too vociferously with actormyk, whom I'm sure is an excellent actor and teacher, but I spent all last summer at a Shakespeare Institute in Massachusetts and our teachers were Franklin Hildy, the leading consultant for the new Globe reconstruction, Julian Bowsher, the lead archeologist of the Museum of London (who excavated the Rose) , and Andrew Gurr, who basically knows everything about all Elizabethan theatres. Google them. It was really quite a brain trust. We even got to hang out with them and drink beer after class. It was great.


This is what I gleaned about theatre construction there:

There has been no decent excavation of the GLobe foundations because an edwardian apartment complex is sitting on it. When they were buiding the New Globe, the found tantalizing bits of it, but not enough to know how many sides it was or its exact dimensions or what the stage was shaped like. They know far more about the Rose, which has been fullly excavated.

They think it might be 16 to 24 sided, and Frank HIldy swears they built the New Globe 10% too big.

Also, theatre scholars never stop arguing about this. I know for a fact Julian and Andy profoundly disagree on what the rear gallery was used for.

The New Globe has gone through various incarnations of paintings, and rails on the edge, then not, and now I think they are reworking the seating to do something with the lower gallery. You can get quite a bit of information on it's construction, and the original 16th century methods on how it was built.

That's as close as you can get right now. Anybody else who says differently is just guessing.

Answer 2

You won't. Although the foundations to the Globe were unearthed and it was discovered to be 20-sided and not only 8-sided, you will not find blueprints for the
ORIGINAL Globe. From drawings of The Swan, The Rose, and others we can make some pretty safe assumptions, though.

Answer 3

Try this link:

http://www.curtaincallinc.com/sog/theglobe.htm

I just Googled: the globe theatre blue print

Good luck!

Answer 4

Have you tried googling it?

Answer 5

england, lol