Globe

Shakespearean London venue

Globe typically refers to the Globe Theatre, the London playhouse associated with Shakespeare, where many of his plays were first performed.

A modern reconstruction stands near the original site: We saw Hamlet at the Globe.

Globe also appears in newspaper names: the Boston Globe. (Lowercase globe is a sphere or the Earth.)

theater

Shakespeare

Elizabethan dramatist and poet

reconstruction · groundlings · thatched · Tudor · stage · repertory · Southwark

newspaper

tabloid

Sensationalist newspaper format

Categories
Opposites
shape/geometry

Globecube

Six-squared-faced solid

square · rectangle · pyramid · cylinder · disk

scale/scope

Globelocality

A particular geographic area

local · local area · village · neighborhood · region

cartographic representation

Globemap

Spatial representation of terrain

chart · atlas · Mercator projection · wall map

Phrases
Family

global, globular, globule

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G