On this day in 1913, the Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare’s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and stayed open until the London theatre closures of 1642. As well as plays by Shakespeare, early works by Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher were first performed here.
Second Globe Theatre, detail from Hollar’s View of London, 1647
Today is the birthday, in 1953, of Colin Hay, Scottish Australian musician with Men At Work, (1983 UK and US No.1 single ‘Down Under’). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
