Visiting Shakespeare's Globe - Hugo Wilkinson, Freemens

For English A-Level, we study a Shakespeare play. In the Sixth Form, divided into 4 classes, we study 3 plays between us. 1 class studies Hamlet, 1 class studies The Tempest and 2 classes study Twelfth Night. These are all expertly written plays however to truly understand them, we had to immerse ourselves in the theatre in which they were written for. Shakespeare's Globe, a reconstruction of the Globe theatre (destroyed by a fire in 1613), was opened in 1997 and is an indire