Jason King Jones discusses an eye witness account from Shakespeare's time of a mishap at the legendary Globe Theatre.
A witness describes a production of Shakespeare's Henry VIII in the summer of 1613 when a canon was fired, lighting the theater's thatched roof albaze. This caused The Globe to burn to the ground. "Nothing perished but wood and straw," the eye witness said, though a man did have his breeches set on fire — remedied with a bottle of ale.
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