The Two Noble Kinsmen – “Roses their sharpe spines being gone, not royal in their smells alone, but in their hew…”
The Two Noble Kinsmen – “ Roses their sharpe spines being gone, not royal in their smells alone, but in their hew…” As the sun rose on the hexagonal shadow of the Globe on Saturday June 29 th , ‘Henry VIII’ was to have its most memorable performance and its last at the original Globe (although a performance would take place of the play on June 29 th 1628 in the new rebuilt Globe Theatre). From an hour or two after sunrise at 5am, stalls of all sorts would have started to set up outside the Globe and beside where the punts crossed the river to arrive on the south bank of the Thames. Around 9am the red flag would have been raised above the towers of the Globe Theatre to tell people that a History play was to be performed later that day and soon after, boys would have been sent out with flyers telling audiences that today’s play would indeed be another performance of ‘The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight’. Around 12 noon, when they heard the church bells chime from So