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  2. Globe Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark , close to the south bank of the Thames, by Shakespeare's playing company , the Lord Chamberlain's Men .

  3. Sam Wanamaker Playhouse - Wikipedia

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    The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse is an indoor theatre forming part of the Shakespeare's Globe complex, along with the recreated Globe Theatre on Bankside in Southwark, London.. Built by making use of 17th-century plans for an indoor English theatre, the playhouse recalls the layout and style of the Blackfriars Theatre (which also existed in Shakespeare's time), although it is not an exact reconstru

  4. Shakespeare's Globe - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse first built in 1599 for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays. Like the original, it is located on the south bank of the River Thames , in Southwark , London.

  5. Theater (structure) - Wikipedia

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    The most famous open-air greek theater was the Globe Theater where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed. They consisted of three principal elements: the orchestra, the skene, and the audience. The centerpiece of the theater was the orchestra, or "dancing place", a large circular or rectangular area. The orchestra was the site of the ...

  6. Shakespeare's Globe Centres - Wikipedia

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    The SGC (Shakespeare Globe Zentrum Deutschland) was founded in 1991 after Sam Wanamaker experienced the Bremer Shakespeare Company's productions of The Taming of the Shrew and Antony and Cleopatra at the Globe Theatre in Neuss and directed by the company's co-founder Norbert Kentrup.

  7. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare is thought to have written Act I, scenes i and ii; II, ii and iv; III, ii, lines 1–203 (to exit of King); V, i. King John: 1595–1598 [42] First known performance at Covent Garden Theatre on 26 February 1737 but doubtlessly performed as early as the 1590s. Richard II: Richard III: Around 1593. [43] First published in a quarto in ...

  8. Peacham drawing - Wikipedia

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    The Peacham drawing, or 'Longleat manuscript', is the only surviving contemporary Shakespearean illustration, now in the library of the Marquess of Bath at Longleat in Wiltshire. The drawing appears to depict a performance of Titus Andronicus , under which is quoted some dialogue.

  9. English Renaissance theatre - Wikipedia

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    The English grammar schools, like those on the continent, placed special emphasis on the trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric.Though rhetorical instruction was intended as preparation for careers in civil service such as law, the rhetorical canons of memory and delivery (pronuntiatio), gesture and voice, as well as exercises from the progymnasmata, such as the prosopopoeia, taught theatrical ...