lloydmasters @ the Swan at the Globe

"All the world's a stage; And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances..."  As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII, William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Many of those exits and entrances were made at the Globe theatre by the Chamberlain's Men (later known as the King's Men), the playing company to which William Shakespeare belonged. The theatre was designed and constructed in 1599 on land co-owned by the sons of theatre entrepreneur and manager James Burbage and a group of five actors including Shakespeare himself. The original Globe was destroyed by fire in 1613 but rebuilt the following year remaining the home of the King's Men until all theatres were closed under England's Puritan administration in 1642; it was demolished in 1644.

Happily for lloydmasters, a modern reconstruction called 'Shakespeare's Globe' was completed in 1997 along with a conference centre 'The Swan', which is where on 10 February we are holding our winter networking event – you are all invited! The focus is change management, and we have an excellent speaker – Justin Hughes, from Mission Excellence – who will look at change through the lens of military strategy.

But where did the Globe get it's name from? Well supposedly it alludes to the latin tag Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem – all the world is a playhouse – words that are said to have been the motto of the original Globe and a belief that Shakespeare stuck to throughout his life.

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