<P> On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII . A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching . According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale . It was rebuilt in the following year . </P> <P> Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the Puritans in 1642 . It was pulled down in 1644--45; the commonly cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 has been identified as a probable forgery--to make room for tenements . </P> <P> A modern reconstruction of the theatre, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997, with a production of Henry V. It is an academic approximation of the original design, based on available evidence of the 1599 and 1614 buildings, and is located approximately 750 feet (230 m) from the site of the original theatre . </P> <P> In February 2016, a temporary full - scale replica of the Second Globe Theatre, called the Pop - up Globe and based on scholarly reanalyses of the surviving evidence for the 1614 building, opened in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, and presented a three - month season of Shakespeare's plays performed by a house company and by visiting local production groups . It was reconstructed in a second Auckland location to host a three - month 2017 season . </P>

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