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The original Globe Theatre may have burned down in the early 1600s, but a replica was built in the 1990s to introduce modern audiences to the structure of Renaissance theater.

This replica of Shakespeare's Globe uses the same layout as the original: A stage open to the ravages of weather, with three rows of covered seats in a ring facing the stage, as well as standing room for the "groundlings" at the foot of the stage.

Like many people of his time, Shakespeare was a bit transient, moving around his hometown of Stratford upon Avon and between Stratford and London. This is one of the few buildings that can be traced to him, through the ownership of his wife, Anne…