Globe Theatre Image
Photo of Globe Theatre by Jenna Hermle at http://www.jennahermle.com/as-you-like-it-magic-at-shakespeares-globe-theatre/ (Creative Commons License)
Recommended Searches and Databases
Try These Searches in the Following Databases or in the Library Catalog:
- Globe Theatre
- Richard Burbage
- Lord Chamberlain's Men
- Elizabethan theater construction
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Credo ReferenceArticles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources from all subject areas. Includes images, audio pronunciation files, maps, and data tables.
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Gale EbooksCollection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and topical content covering a variety of subject areas.
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Oxford Reference OnlineArticles from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference sources from all subject areas. Includes quotations, maps, and illustrations.
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Arts (ProQuest)Articles from journals and magazines covering art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
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Salem LiteratureCollection of literary criticism of selected novels and author biographies.
Suggested Websites on Elizabethan Theatre
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Shakespeare's Theater (The Folger Shakespeare Library)This site created and maintained by the Folger Shakespeare Library explains the flexible nature of theater spaces and how audiences experienced plays during Shakespeare's times.
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Who Were These People? Audiences in Shakespeare’s DayMichelle Burce's article on the Seattle Shakespeare Company's website offers insight into both the nature of the theater buildings and the characteristics and behavior of audiences during Shakespeare's times.
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Performing Shakespeare in the 17th CenturyThis site by the Royal Shakespeare Company of England gives a brief overview of the relationship between playwrights and actors and the nature of scene rehearsals during Elizabethan times.
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (Current Website)This website was established and is maintained by the Shakespeare Globe Trust and offers current information for events happening at the Globe Theatre space, originally constructed in 1599 and reconstructed in 1990.
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre History pagesReview the history of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre by reading the following pages: History of the Globe, William Shakespeare, Original Globe, & Globe Rebuilt
Videos about the Globe & Elizabethan Theatre
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Shakespeare's Globe Mini-Doc (Mini-documentary)Take a 45-minute, informative, inside tour of the re-created Globe Theatre in London.
"Shakespeare's World," part of the Timelines.tv series was originally commission by the BBC and written and presented by Andrew Chater. This 7-minute video takes the viewer inside the Globe Theatre as well as to the neighborhood where Shakespeare was born and went to school, describing how 16th and 17th Century Elizabethan society was in a period of transformation, which was reflected in Shakespeare's works.