William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre William Shakespeare is one of the most important and most influence dramatist of the world literature. In the year 1586 when William Shakespeare first came to London, he started working in the Globe Theatre. The Globe Theatre was build up in a octagonal shape: “Better yet, the walls give back the voices as the innes cannot” (White 36). The octagonally shaped outer wall of the theatre enclosed a roofless inner pit into which the stage projected. Around the pit were three galleries, one above the other, the topmost of which was roofed thatch. “The s