The Globe was owned by actors who were also shareholders in Lord Chamberlain's Men. Two of the six Globe shareholders, Richard Burbage and his brother Cuthbert Burbage, owned double shares of the whole, or 25% each; the other four men, Shakespeare, John Heminges, Augustine Phillips, and Thomas Pope, owned a single share, or 12.5%. On 29 June 1613 the Globe Theatre went up in flames during a performance of Henry VIII. A theatrical cannon, set off during the performance, misfired, igniting the wooden beams and thatching. According to one of the few surviving documents of the event, no one was hurt except a man whose burning breeches were put out with a bottle of ale. It was rebuilt in the following year. Since the Globe theatre reconstruction opened for performances in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe has welcomed visitors from all over the world to take part in workshops, lectures and staged readings; to visit the exhibition and tour the Globe theatre,
am doing the work, not the expression. Objection 1 According to Russell, sentence (6) ("The present King of France is bald") is false owing to the lack of any such King. Strawson points out that that ver- dict is implausible. Suppose someone comes out and asserts (6). Would that person's hearers react by saying "That's false" or "I disagree"? Surely not. Rather, Strawson maintains, the speaker has produced an only ostensibly referring expression that has misfired; the speaker has simply failed to refer to anything and so has failed to make a complete statement. The speaker's utterance is certainly defective, but not in the same way that "The present Queen of England has no children" is defective. It is not incorrect but abor- tive; it does not even get a chance to be false. Since no proper statement has been made in the first place, it follows that nothing either true or false has been said