... in three galleries around the theater. In the colder months plays were performed in so-called private indoor theaters for a more elite audience. The acting style for the early Elizabethan plays was heroic and exaggerated, like the plays themselves. One of the most memorable stages of Elizabethan time was the The Globe Theater, a 17th -century English theater in Southwark, London, notable for the initial and contemporary productions of Shakespeare's plays and of the dramatic works of Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and others. The Globe was constructed In 1599 by the famous English actor Richard Burbage, in partnership with Shakespeare and others. The octagonally-shaped outer wall of the theater enclosed a roofless inner pit into which the stage projected; around the pit were three galleries, one above the other, the topmost of which was roofed with thatch. In 1613 a cannon, discharged during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, set ...

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