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Shakespeare's Globe, a modern theatre built in 1997, is a replica of the Globe Playhouse, an Elizabethan theatre built by Richard and Cuthbert Burbage and the carpenter Peter Street in 1599. Like it, and like all theatres of that time and most nowadays, there is a trapdoor in the stage. This enables actors to suddenly appear or disappear from below (as the witches do in Macbeth) in a puff of smoke. It also could be used to represent a hole in the ground, like Ophelia's grave in Hamlet, or the mine being dug under the walls of Harfleur in Henry V.

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Not only did the Globe Theatre have a trap door. It had two trap doors. One on stage and one near the entrance.

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The onstage trap door at the Globe Theatre was used to make dramatic entraces for ghosts, muderers, etc.

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they had 2 so they can add appearance for somebody going to hell or heaven or a ghost going somewhere

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