The Globe Theatre

Until this week, I thought that the best place in the world to see Shakespeare was Stratford upon Avon. I was wrong. There is nothing that comes close to the Globe Theatre in London.

It is common to see a Shakespeare play set in the 18th, 19th, or 20th century. The plots are timeless. But there is something special about seeing a play performed the way it would have been in Elizabethan times.

I was struck by the intimacy of the Globe theater. Most of the audience sits on benches. I had a chair in one of the Gentleman's boxes and so had a view of both the stage and the audience.


My gaze was drawn to the "groundlings" who were standing through the performance. They were enthralled, and I could imagine what it must have been like to see and hear the play when it was first performed.

And as good luck would have it, I got to hear "and as good luck would have it" because it is a line from The Merry Wives of Windsor.