where did william shakespeare perform most of his plays?
Globe Theatre, London
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 It is not clear for which companies Shakespeare wrote his early plays . The title page of the 1594 edition of Titus Andronicus reveals that the play had been acted by three different troupes . After the plagues of 1592 – 3 , Shakespeare 's plays were performed by his own company at The Theatre and the Curtain in Shoreditch , north of the Thames . Londoners flocked there to see the first part of Henry IV , Leonard Digges recording , " Let but Falstaff come , Hal , Poins , the rest ... and you scarce shall have a room " . When the company found themselves in dispute with their landlord , they pulled The Theatre down and used the timbers to construct the Globe Theatre , the first playhouse built by actors for actors , on the south bank of the Thames at Southwark . The Globe opened in autumn 1599 , with Julius Caesar one of the first plays staged . Most of Shakespeare 's greatest post @-@ 1599 plays were written for the Globe , including Hamlet , Othello and King Lear . 

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 In the United Kingdom , the actor @-@ managers of the Victorian era ( including Kean , Samuel Phelps , Macready , and Henry Irving ) staged Shakespeare in a grand manner , with elaborate scenery and costumes . The tendency of actor @-@ managers to emphasise the importance of their own central character did not always meet with the critics ' approval . George Bernard Shaw 's praise for Johnston Forbes @-@ Robertson 's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving : " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible , and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments . What is the Lyceum coming to ? " 

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 In 1599 , a partnership of members of the company built their own theatre on the south bank of the River Thames , which they named the Globe . In 1608 , the partnership also took over the Blackfriars indoor theatre . Extant records of Shakespeare 's property purchases and investments indicate that his association with the company made him a wealthy man , and in 1597 he bought the second @-@ largest house in Stratford , New Place , and in 1605 , invested in a share of the parish tithes in Stratford . 

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 The Pipe rolls from the 13th century onwards are less important for historical study because there are other surviving financial records . Some , such as the receipt rolls , were also kept by the exchequer , and were used by the treasury clerks to prepare the Pipe rolls . Other surviving records were kept by the sheriffs for their own use in submitting accounts to the Pipe rolls . However the post 13th @-@ century Pipe rolls are occasionally the sole source for historical facts such as William Shakespeare 's residence in the parish of St Helen 's Bishopsgate , and in Southwark . 

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 Today its interior is one of the most dignified stages in Europe , and a well @-@ known place for William Shakespeare 's Hamlet performances . 
