Photo of Globe Theatre by Jenna Hermle at http://www.jennahermle.com/as-you-like-it-magic-at-shakespeares-globe-theatre/ (Creative Commons License)
Globe Theatre
Richard Burbage
Lord Chamberlain's Men
Elizabethan theater construction
"Shakespeare's World," part of the Timelines.tv series was originally commission by the BBC and written and presented by Andrew Chater. This 7-minute video takes the viewer inside the Globe Theatre as well as to the neighborhood where Shakespeare was born and went to school, describing how 16th and 17th Century Elizabethan society was in a period of transformation, which was reflected in Shakespeare's works.