Book contents
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Videos
- Audios
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- A Tale of Two Playhouses
- City Performance
- Innyard Spaces
- The Playhouse Audience
- The Theatre’s Warm-up Acts
- Constructing the Globe
- Prologue
- Surviving Drawings
- The Swan Sketch
- The Shape of the Stage
- Alternative Stage Shapes
- The Curtain and Blackfriars Stages
- Seating and Sightlines
- How Many Doors Had the 1599 Globe?
- The Tiring House
- Stage Decoration
- Shakespeare by Candlelight
- Heavens, Pillars, Trap
- The Balcony
- Music and Sound
- Special Effects
- Epilogue: Bringing the House Down
- Works Cited
Surviving Drawings
from Prologue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2025
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Shakespeare’s Stages
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Videos
- Audios
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- A Tale of Two Playhouses
- City Performance
- Innyard Spaces
- The Playhouse Audience
- The Theatre’s Warm-up Acts
- Constructing the Globe
- Prologue
- Surviving Drawings
- The Swan Sketch
- The Shape of the Stage
- Alternative Stage Shapes
- The Curtain and Blackfriars Stages
- Seating and Sightlines
- How Many Doors Had the 1599 Globe?
- The Tiring House
- Stage Decoration
- Shakespeare by Candlelight
- Heavens, Pillars, Trap
- The Balcony
- Music and Sound
- Special Effects
- Epilogue: Bringing the House Down
- Works Cited
Summary
Evidence for what the Globe looked like in any sort of detail is scrappy and divergent indeed. Unfortunately for us, two of the best pieces of pictorial evidence we have do not depict the Globe that was built in 1599 at all, but the second Globe, rebuilt in 1614 on the foundations of the first playhouse after it burned down mid-performance.
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- Shakespeare's Stages , pp. 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressFirst published in: 2025