The Boston Globe

The Lights Never Go Out In Staunton, a city just twenty nine miles south of Harrisonburg, lies a theatre. This tiny Virginia theatre restores how Shakespeare’s plays would have been performed. The American Shakespeare Center takes on the daunting task of preforming a comedy or a tragedy. Only with the actors themselves, a scarce costumes, and varying props. In 1623, when the Twelfth Night was originally debut, theatres’ did not have a large Broadway budget. The American Shakespeare Center…

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare For my production response paper I decided to attend The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, a University of Anderson production play. The play lasted about and hour and thirty minutes with 4 actors; Pia Desideria, Katie Judge, Jack Render, and Cassi Russell. In all honesty I was stoked to attend this play due to the fact that it’s been around 10 years since I have attended a play. The title of the play gave me an idea of what I would be expecting.…

Some of Shakespeare’s first plays were performed at the Globe including: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, King Lear and some others. The Globe is one of the most famous theatres there is. The first Globe was built by the company Shakespeare was in, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men. Richard Burbage was the company’s leading actor. They had played at the Theatre, built by the Burbage family on land leased from a Mr Allen. In 1597. Disaster struck the Globe in 1613. On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeare’s…

The Globe Theatre Julius Caesar was the very first play performed in The Globe Theatre. The Globe Theatre was a big building with three rows of seating and a pit in the middle where the plays were performed. The Globe Theatre was represented by the original structure, the fire, and the reconstruction. The Globe Theatre was the most beautiful thing built yet. “As you like it” was written somewhere in the theatre. The Globe Theatres structure was beautiful. Unfortunately it was burned down by a…

Despite the struggle that William Shakespeare endured throughout his life he still managed to become an influential historian, and become successful regardless of his financial, family and career problems. He had a very different childhood than most think he had, and growing up in the Elizabethan era wasn’t the easiest for him either. He took the word success to a whole new level in his time and left a huge impact on the world of theatre as a whole. Shakespeare has been known for his strong…

A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by the poet and playwright William Shakespeare(1564-1616), was first published in the Quarto edition in 1600, although it is suggested, that this play was ‘first put on in court in 1595’ (Salgado, 1975: p. 116).Whether this play was made in the early 1580s or later than that, became a controversial matter. Francis Meres’ in his Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury (1598), mentioned A Midsummer Night’s Dream as ‘one of a dozen Shakespeare plays’(Stritmatter, 2006: p.…

the globe theater. That theater is where most of Shakespeare play were first presented to the public. Shakespeare bought his share of the globe theater along with others from lord chamberlain’s men. The globe theater was the biggest out of the four theaters. Shakespeare has a very important literature part on the world and the globe theater helped put on the plays for Shakespeare. Shakespeare friend James Burbage built the globe theater in 1599. Shakespeare became a shareholder with the globe…

very different from twenty first century theatres. The first Elizabethan playhouse in England was built in 1576, just outside of London’s city boundaries. Simply named The Theatre, this building lead way for The Curtain, The Swan, The Rose, and The Globe (Rea). These theatres were built in a style known as an Amphitheater. They are open-air performance area which contain an elevated platform for a stage and a viewing area which surrounded the platform. Audiences played a gradually increasing…

One of the greatest playwrights of all time was William Shakespeare. He, like many famous individuals, was not terribly popular when he lived. He wrote more than 30 plays and did many other works as well. The plays he wrote captivated the audience, and told story's like no other. He built his own theater, and used the money he got from it, to buy his family the second largest estate in Stratford. His fame mostly came after he had died. In the 19th century, adoration for Shakespeare was at its…

strict religious beliefs the English Parliament issued an ordinance suppressing all stage plays in all theaters. In 1644 the Globe Theater number two was demolished by the Puritans. In 1660 the demise in Puritan powers allowed theaters to be opened again, the globe was never reconstructed. Until Sam Wanamaker starts campaign to rebuild the Globe in 1969. Sam established the “Globe Playhouse Trust” which was an educational charity in order to raise funds for building of a replica theater.…