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Shakespeare's Globe

Mike's Views, Reviews & Previews

Introduction

Each summer since 1997 Shakespeare's Globe on London's Bankside has offered a season of plays. More than one play each season has been by Shakespeare, but there are many by the Bard's contemporaries and also new plays commissioned by the theatre.

I have attended at least one play each year, and usually several. I've only missed a few Shakespeare productions mostly due to illness. I've written reviews of most of those that I've seen.

I've created a page for each season and below is a list of the seasons and a link to each page and also to individual productions.

Season List

 
  2012 The Play's The Thing
 
  2011 The Word is God
 
  2010 Rogues and Villains
 
  2009 Young Hearts
 
  2008 Totus Mundus
 
  2007 Renaissance + Revolution
 
  2006 The Edges of Rome
 
  2005 The Season of the World and the Underworld
 
  2004 The Season of Star-Crossed Lovers
 
  2003 The Season of Regime Change
 
  2002 The Season of Cupid & Psyche
 
  2001
 
  2000
 
  1999
 
  1998
 
  1997
 

Links

Internal

Original Globe

Original Globe Playhouse

 

In 1598 Shakespeare's acting company carried the timbers from the dismantled Theatre across the Thames to Bankside. There they used the timbers as the frame of their new playhouse they called the Globe. In 1613 it burnt down but they again rebuilt it. For more details click on the link.

New Globe

New Globe Playhouse

 

The American actor Sam Wanamaker worked hard for decades to make the new Globe a reality, but he didn't live to see it built. Here's the story of how the new Shakespeare's Globe came to be built on London's Bankside in the 1990's

Mike's Views, Reviews and Previews

 

A list of links to details and my reviews of every season since 1997 at Shakespeare's Globe

 

Globe Main

Globe Old & New top page

 

Recommended Books

Well Furlong Book Shop

 

My list of recommended books about the Globe, the Rose and other playhouses of the time may be found in the Globe Playhouse section of the Well Furlong Book Shop . If you so wish, you may go on to buy many of the volumes in our Book Shop directly from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

 

External

Shakespeare's Globe

 

The official Shakespeare's Globe site

 
 
 
 
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