Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor This is not the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare's time. The original Globe Theatre – which staged Shakespeare's plays and where the Bard wrote "Twelfth Night," "King ...

And unsurpisingly he is inescapable in London. The iconic Elizabethan recreation Shakespeare’s Globe theatre is his temple, with a year-round programme that’s about three-quarters his works.

The Globe Theatre on London's South Bank is a faithful reconstruction of the 1599 open-air playhouse where William Shakespeare worked and wrote many of his plays. This reconstruction, which opened ...