Blog Entry #6

Your assignment for today’s blog entry is to explore London’s Globe Theatre. Take the virtual tours and allow yourself to imagine the theatre experience during Shakespeare’s time. Write a short blog entry (minimum of 250 words), describing your impression of the theatre. Do you think you would enjoy seeing a play at the Globe? Where would you like to sit? Why? What is the most interesting thing you have learned about the Globe?

I love European historical sites and I love English literature. I think that Shakespeare's writing is so advanced for their time. He used irony and exaggeration in a way that is still used today. I would love seeing a play at the Globe because his plays are timeless and have a really amazing way of connecting incredible events to anyone's life. Being able to witness the plays that changed the English language would be really inspiring. I think that something like that would seem very surreal. Since the plays were made to be performed on the stage of the Globe theatre, the plays would be even more incredible if we could see them on the proper stage. They could then be seen at their best and it would be really amazing to be able to fully understand how Shakespeare envisioned them.

I would want to sit in the galleries so that I would not be in the midst of all the pickpockets and questionable people. It would be easier to concentrate on the play from somewhere where you could be seated.

The most interesting thing I learned about the Globe was how many times it was destroyed. It was burnt down and still Shakespeare never gave up. They were not discouraged and the dedicated their lives to entertaining people and writing plays that have no equals.