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Static scenes at the Globe and the Rose Elizabethan theatres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Andrew Gurr
Andrew Gurr*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 2AA, England
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Abstract

In 1989, we reported the state of affairs at the Rose, and in 1992 at the Globe, the two Elizabethan theatres in London which survive archaeologically. They are the unique remnants of a unique and uniquely valued kind of building, Shakespeare's workplaces. On December 1993, Sam Wanamaker died, whose inspired scheme to re-make a Shakespearean Globe using evidence from these remnants is at last being built. We asked Andrew Gurr, co-author of our two reports, to tell us what is happening at both original theatre sites. His story is of scenes that are, by Shakespeare's standards, most static.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 146 - 147
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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