The Third Globe—what is known as Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre—was designed to be as close to the originals as they could get. A great deal of research went into the shape and layout of the first and second th
of the original Globe's construction and have rebuilt the theatre today based on how it would have looked originally. Today, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is in the shape of a polygon with 20 sides and is three stories high. The building, like the two before it, stands in London, England....
Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. The appeal of the young hero and heroine is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative of star-cr
Globe Theatre, famous London theater in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed. The Globe was pulled down in 1644, two years after the Puritans closed all theaters. A reconstructed Globe opened at the original’s location in 199
Royal Shakespeare Company, English theatrical company based in Stratford-upon-Avon that has a long history of Shakespearean performance. Its repertoire continues to centre on works by William Shakespeare and other Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights. Mo
“a great affection of an elder for a younger man…such asPlatomade the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in thesonnetsofMichelangeloand Shakespeare. It is that deep, spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect.” But the jury failed to reach a verdict. In ...
Welles remained in Ireland for a year, acting with the company at theAbbey Theatreas well as at the Gate; he also designed sets, wrote a newspaper column, and begandirectingplays. In 1932 Welles left Dublin and tried to get work on the stages of London and New York; unsuccessful, he in...
In the play Cleopatra is a spoiled and vicious 16-year-old child rather than the 38-year-old temptress of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. The play depicts Caesar as a lonely and austere man who is as much a philosopher as he is a soldier. The play’s outstanding success rests ...
Robeson’s characterization of the title role inWilliam Shakespeare’s tragedyOthelloin London (1930) won high praise, as did the Broadway production (1943), which set anall-time record run for a Shakespearean play on Broadway, with 296 performances. Robeson was the first Black actor to playOt...
Lithgow was born into a theatrical family; his mother was an actress, and his father was atheatreproducer. When he was a child, Lithgow’s family moved to Ohio, where his father produced localShakespearefestivals. It was at one such festival that Lithgow made his childhoodactingdebut, and he...