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William ShakespeareEarlierShakespeare's Birthplace Workshop1564 CE
William ShakespeareLaterShakespeare's First Folio Published1623
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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. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.

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