Shakespeare at the Globe 15991609 Author:Bernard Beckerman The construction of the Globe Theater on the Bankside of the Thames in 1599 initiated a glorious decade for the drama, during which the Chamberlain-King's company, the Globe's producing group of actors, achieved a level of stability and a quality of productivity rarely matched in the history of the theater. Fifteen of Shakespeare's greatest play... more »s - among them Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and As You Like It - enjoyed their first performances on the Globe's stage between the years 1599 and 1609.
"Shakespeare at the Globe", based on the evidence of twenty-nine production scripts of plays known to have been produced at the Globe between 1599 and 1609, offers many fresh and challenging new perspectives on the Globe's repertory system, its dramaturgy, its stage and its staging, and the acting styles of its company.
Concentrating upon the actual production values given the Globe's repertory, Bernard Beckerman here creates an exciting new dimension to our understanding of Elizabethan drama.« less