* Blogmanac | June 29 1613 | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns
The Globe Theatre in London burnt down as a cannon was fired for a scene in Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

Very shortly after the blaze, Shakespeare retired back to Stratford. The play being performed at the time was also called All This is True, supposed to be a revival of King Henry the Eighth – this we know from the contemporary ballad, On the Pitiful Burning of the Globe Play-house:



Out ran the knights, out ran the lords,
And there was great ado,
Some lost their hats, some lost their swords,
Then out ran Burbage too;
The reprobates, though drunk on Monday,
Prayed for the fool, and Henry Condy.
Oh! sorrow, pitiful sorrow, and yet
All This is True.

New Globe Theatre (modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe)
Matt Groening the Elder Henry VIII at Simpson Court
Tudor Humour