The Globe is sometimes referred to as ‘a theatre built by actors for actors’, and there is of course a good deal in that. It is famously referred to as ‘this wooden O’ in Henry V, and other contemporary accounts describe it as round, but it is unlikely to have been literally circular. ‘Tudor carpenters did not bend oak,’ the theatre historian Andrew Gurr has observed, and a circular building would have required bent wood. Instead it was probably a many-sided polygon. - P123