Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames
that was originally built in 1599, destroyed by fire in 1613, rebuilt
in 1614, and then demolished in 1644. The modern reconstruction is an
academic approximation based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614
buildings. It was founded by the actor and director Sam Wanamaker
and built about 230 metres (750 ft) from the site of the original
theatre and opened to the public in 1997, with a production of Henry V. The site also includes the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,
an indoor theatre which opened in January 2014. This is a smaller,
candle-lit space based on the indoor playhouses of Jacobean London.
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