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Bibliography: Actors and Acting
Managers, Producers, and Directors Linked to Shakespeare from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Performance in Shakespeare's Theatre by Alvin Kernan from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Includes Plot synopses, Performance history, Life and times, Shakespeare's Stratford, Authorship debate, Shakespeare's contemporaries, and Shakespeare's London.
Royal Shakespeare Company: Pictures and Exhibitions Collection "This site is the pictures and exhibitions collection of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). It provides online access to over 3,500 images relating to the history of the RSC. Pictures include portraits of actors, costumes, performance shots, as well as paintings and prints from the 18th and 19th centuries. The images may also be browsed by theme or exhibition. Topics include specific plays: Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth and Hamlet; violent imagery in plays like Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Coriolanus; Shakespeare and race; Shakespeare and women; the histories; and the late plays. The archive may be searched by description, type, period, creator and subject. A subject directory and index is also available which permits browsing by assigned keywords. The images included are supported by detailed metadata, may be enlarged and can be added to a personal folder of selected images." Stuart Allen, The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Shakespeare in Performance: A Select Bibliography of Materials
Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century "G. Blakemore Evans offers this series of electronic edition promptbooks for Shakespeare's plays used by the seventeenth-century theatre. The editions, published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, feature facsimiles of stage directions with collated prompts showing variations between different copies, and each text is forwarded with a brief critical introduction. Copies used include Padua, Nursery and Smock Alley prompt-books.
The eight volumes comprise the following: I. General Introduction and 'Macbeth'; II. 'Measure for Measure' and 'A Winter's Tale'; III. 'The Comedy of Errors' and 'A Midsummer NIght's Dream'; IV. 'Hamlet'; V. 'Macbeth'; VI. 'Othello'; VII. 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'; VIII. 'King Lear', 'Henry the Eighth', 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', 'Twelfth Night', 'The Comedy of Errors' and 'A Winter's Tale'.
Blakemore Evans is editor of the 1974 'Riverside Shakespeare', as well as author of numerous works on the bard, and a former student of the twentieth-century editor of 'Tottel's Miscellany' and eclectic scholar of sixteenth-century literature, H. E. Rollins." Chris Boswell, The Humbul Humanities Hub.
Touchstone
is a cooperative venture of the British Library, the University of Birmingham,
the Birmingham Shakespeare Library, and the Shakespeare Centre Stratford-on-Avon.
Touchstone's Shakespeare
in Performance provides information on past and future Shakespeare theatre
productions, including links on Stage History, Shakespeare on Film, and Theatre
Companies that produce Shakespeare plays and, where possible, details of the
relevant theatre archive. Touchstone's Exhibitions
includes links to the New Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare at the Birmingham
Repertory Theatre 1906-1960, and Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Exhibitions
includes links to History, Photographs, Posters and Programmes, Promptbooks,
Theatre Architecture, and Costume Designs.
Bibliography: Shakespeare's Stage
Bibliography: The Stage and Staging
The Place of Shakespeare's Stage in Elizabethan Culture by Steven Mullaney from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Shakespeare's Theatre, Historical and Modern
The Globe Theatre All about the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London where Shakespeare worked. Box office info, pictures, exhibitions, costumes, and performance schedules.
Shakespeare and the Globe: Then and Now from Encyclopædia Britannica; includes an animated tour.
Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre by Andrew Gurr from Encyclopædia Britannica.
Shakespeare's Globe Database This site, sponsored by the University of Reading (UK), is dedicated to providing background information on Shakespearean performance in original conditions. Centred around the construction of a replica of the Globe playhouse in London, it includes pages devoted to the original Globe and other playhouses in Early Modern London, reports and photographic documentaries on reconstruction and performances at the New Globe, and also some practical information.
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