postscript: the Globe Theatre

 

One of the sub-contractors we used, McCurdy & Co., used the experience of building a three-storeyed urban oak–frame in York to persuade the American actor Sam Wanamaker that they were the right men to build his dream of recreating Shakespeare’s lost playhouse in London.

Similarities with the North Range in Coffee Yard are obvious, segmented into a polygon form for the celebrated “wooden O”.

The designer and illustrator C. Walter Hodges (1909-2004) suggested 70 years ago that a timber-framed building like was the probable basis of Shakespeare’s lost theatre. Sadly, Wanamaker died during its recreation and never saw his cherished project realised.

 

 

 

 

Hodge's speculative reconstruction made reality with reference to the Barley Hall Project in York