1599
Globe Theatre's founding
1599 is a year in the Gregorian calendar, notable as the year Shakespeare's Globe Theatre opened in London.
Like other years, it functions as a noun identifying a specific point in historical time: The play was first performed in 1599.
Years ending in 99 often carry fin-de-siècle associations with endings and transitions.
Historic circular London playhouse
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
- Virgin QueenEpithet for unmarried English sovereign
Marlowe · Elizabeth I · courtier · ruff · doublet · hose · quill · playwright
Twelve-month duration
- GregorianNamed for a pope
- JulianRelating to a famous Roman
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- centuryHundred-year span
epoch · era · Anno Domini · timeline · periodization · turn of the century · Elizabethan era · milestone
Tragedy of rival households
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- Julius CaesarRoman dictator and general
- Henry VMedieval English king
- As You Like ItPastoral romantic comedy
Much Ado About Nothing · Globe Theatre · tragedy · comedy · soliloquy · iambic pentameter · quarto · groundlings
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
- classicismAdherence to ancient artistic principles
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
innovation · Giordano Bruno · natural philosophy · printing press · scientific inquiry · astrology · alchemy · university
1485-1603 English period
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
- Philip IIAncient Macedonian ruler
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
privateering · Catholicism · Protestantism · succession crisis · plague · London · English Renaissance
Globe Theatre
Historic circular London playhouse
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
- TudorSixteenth-century English ruling family
Marlowe · Virgin Queen · Elizabeth I · courtier · ruff · doublet · hose · quill · playwright · dramatist
year
Twelve-month duration
- GregorianNamed for a pope
- JulianRelating to a famous Roman
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
century · epoch · era · Anno Domini · timeline · periodization · turn of the century · Elizabethan era · milestone
Romeo and Juliet
Tragedy of rival households
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- Julius CaesarRoman dictator and general
- Henry VMedieval English king
As You Like It · Much Ado About Nothing · Globe Theatre · tragedy · comedy · soliloquy · iambic pentameter · quarto · groundlings · Stratford
humanism
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
- classicismAdherence to ancient artistic principles
perspective · innovation · Giordano Bruno · natural philosophy · printing press · scientific inquiry · astrology · alchemy · university · scholarship
Tudor England
1485-1603 English period
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
- Philip IIAncient Macedonian ruler
colonization · privateering · Catholicism · Protestantism · succession crisis · plague · London · English Renaissance