(Photo is of the San Diego Globe, 1935 which had been copied from the 1934 Chicago Globe. Courtesy of Special collections, Thomas Wood Stevens Archive, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, Arizona.)
1932 The Folger Shakespeare library opens in Washington D.C. It includes a roofed reconstruction of the Fortune playhouse of 1600.
1932 The Stratford Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon is rebuilt after the fire of 1926. The building is designed by an American architect and largely funded with American donations.
| 1934 Thomas Wood Stevens builds a reconstructed Globe for the
Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago, home town of Sam Wanamaker.
Over the next two years this reconstruction is copied in San Diego, Dallas,
and Cleveland.
(Photo is of the San Diego Globe, 1935 which had been copied from the 1934 Chicago Globe. Courtesy of Special collections, Thomas Wood Stevens Archive, University of Arizona Libraries, Tucson, Arizona.) |
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1935 The Ashland Oregon Shakespeare Festival is founded but it does not adopt its outdoor Elizabethan stage until 1959.
1936 Sam Wanamaker joins the Blackfriar's Company to perform in the reconstructed Globe at the Great Lakes Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.
1952 Sam Wanamaker moves to London.
1961 The Utah Shakespeare Festival is founded but does not open its Globe style theatre until July 1977.
1968 The Globe of the Great Southwest opens in Odessa, Texas.
1970 Sam Wanamaker presents his Bankside Globe Development Plan on October 23.
1971 Sam Wanamaker establishes the Shakespeare Globe Trust. Professor Glynne Wickham is first "Academic and Historical consultant.".
1971 Glynne Wickham proposes a resolution in support of the Globe project for the First World Shakespeare Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1972 The Shakespeare Globe Trust establishes
The World Center for Shakespeare Studies, later to become the International
Shakespeare Globe Centre.
Almost as soon as Sam Wanamaker announced that he would take up the elusive task of trying to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse in London, he turned to the United States to raise money. Though he had lived in England since 1952 he had a professional residence in Los Angeles and maintained close ties with influential friends in Chicago. The United States was the major source of funding for the project in its formative years and a leader in generating academic support for it.
1974 The World Center for Shakespeare Studies of the Americas is established in the United States, distinguished Shakespeare Scholar Sam Schoenbaum, of NorthWestern University in Chicago is its first President.
1975 the World Centre for Shakespeare Studies sponsors "A Theatre for
Shakespeare," a panel discussion featuring C. Walter Hodges, J. L. Styan, Sam
Schoenbaum, and Sam Wanamaker. This is part of the "Shakespeare and the Public"
conference held at Northwestern University with funding from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. Six months later Schoenbaum moves to the University of Maryland
to head the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and steps down as President.
Chicagoan Lee A. Freeman Sr. established the first unofficial board
of directors in Chicago.
1979 Sam Wanamaker lists Houston Shakespeare Festival founder Sidney L. Berger as a member of the board. Professor Berger decides he may as well join and starts plans to create a Globe office in Houston.
1979 The Third Globe Symposium is held at Wayne State University, Leonard Leone, director. This is not an SGC(NA) project but a competing proposal to build a Globe reconstruction in Detroit. The project is never built but a split is created in the US academic community between suporters of the London Globe and those of the Detroit project.
1981 The World Centre for Shakespeare Studies in London is reorganized into the International Shakespeare Globe Centre. In the United States "The Shakespeare Globe Theatre Centre" is incorporated as a not for profit educational and cultural charity in the State of Illinois on February 25th. Sam Wanamaker is president and Chicagoan Lee A. Freeman Sr. chairman. Noted Shakespeare scholar J. L. Styan of Northwestern University is the academic vice president and chairman of the advisory council.
1981 On April 26th, Ian McKellan dose his one-man show, Acting Shakespeare, in New York as the first official US fundraiser for the new organization. Princess Grace of Monaco serves as Honorary Patron and agrees to do a fundraising tour of the United States on the Globe's behalf.
1982 In June the national office is moved from Chicago to New York with Edmee Slocum as Executive Director. Plans are developed to create six regional centers, Eastern, Souteastern, Midwest, Southwest, Rocky Mountain and Western.
1982 The Shakespeare Globe Theatre Centre changes its name to the "Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America)" on September 27th with Dr. Armand Hammer, Chairman; Gordon P. Getty, Vice-Chairman, Sam Wanamaker , President, Jerome E. Link, Vice-President, and J. L. Styan, National Chairman of the Advisory Council.
1982 US Honorary Patron, Princess Grace, in killed in a automobile accedent on Sept. 14, 1982 in Monte Carlo.
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1982 The Formation of the Globe Centre and the Inauguration of "The Shakespeare Estate Royalty Fund" were presented before his Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on 23 September 1982. (Photo: Dr. Hammer introduces Prince Philip to Marshall Wais, Jr., a founding sharer. Shown between Wais and Prince Philip are Zev Bufman, producer, Elizabeth Taylor, and Cary Grant. To the right of Dr. Hammer, Sam Wanamaker oversees the introductions.) |
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1982 The Shakespeare Globe Center (North America) Eastern Region is served by the national office with Professor Maurice Charney of Rutgers University as Chair of the Regional Advisory Council.
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1982 The Chicago office becomes The Shakespeare Globe Center (North Amereica) Midwest Regions or Mid-America as it is sometimes called. (Photo: Key figures of the Chicago Office, 1987, left to right back row Robert Schneideman, Roger Garrick [British Consul General] Patricia Barton, Gene Anderson; front row, Pat Peterson, Sue Wade, Verna Orndorff, John L. Styan. |
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1983 The first dedication of the Globe site takes place in London on July 13 with over twentyfive members of the SGC(NA) present..
| 1983 The first logo for the project was designed. |  |
1983-84 The production of Wooden O tours nine cities. The show features actors John Duckworth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lisa Harrow, Cleo Laine, Shirley McLaine, Leonard Nimoy, Jean Marsh, Beatrice Straight, Nicol Williamson and Michael York.
1983 The Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America)- Southwest Region is established at Houston, Sidney Berger, Executive Director and Rutherford Cravens III, Education Director. It creates a Shakespeare outreach program that quickly becomes a model for the state of Texas.
1983 The Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America)- Rocky Mountain Region is established at Denver with Donald Seawell as Chair and Larry Ellenberg, Denver Theatre Center, Chair of the Academic and Professional Advisory Council and David E. Jones of the University of Utah as Advisory Council Vice-Chair. (After organizing one meeting Ellenberg leaves Denver and Henry Lowenstien becomes acting Advisory Council Chair.) When Seawell resigns at the end of the year this regio becomes inactive.
1983 Shakespeare Globe Centre Academic and Professional Advisory
Councils are set up in the following regions prior to the creation of regional
offices.
Western Region, Professor Hugh Richmond, UC Berkeley,
Advisory Council Chair,
Southeast Region, Professor Alan Dessen, University
of North Carolina, Chair
Professor Franklin J. Hildy,
Berry College, Rome, Georgia, Vice-Chair (1984)
1984 The Shakespeare Globe Centre(North America) Western Region is established in Los Angeles with Kay Tornburg as Executive Director and Louis Fantasia as Education Director. They develop a highly successful education program that is the first of the SGC centers to take student groups for summer study at the Bear Garden Museum in London.
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1984 The first international conference to address how the Globe will be used, "Shakespeare's Globe Reborn" is held at Northwestern University, June 28-30. The conference is chaired by J. L Styan and co-chaired by Robert I. Schneideman and co-hosted by the Shakespeare globe Centre (North America.) Photo left to right Franklin J. Hildy --Vice-Chair SGC(NA) Southeast Advisory Council; Glynne Wickham, -- 1st Chair of the UK Advisory Council; J. L Styan -- 1st Chair of the Adviosry Council, Sam Schoenbaum -- 1st President of US organization |
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1984 Fundraising efforts in the US are put on hold when the Borough of Southwark formally notifies the ISGC, on October 24th, that it intends to withdraw from the 1981 agreement that was to give The Shakespeare Globe trust a 125 year lease on the present Globe site.
1986 The Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America) Southeast Region , Franklin J. Hildy, Acting Director, begins unofficial operations in Rome, Georgia, by hosting Sam Wanamaker as the keynote speaker for the Southeast Theatre Conference convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1986 Following an out of court settlement in June 1986, The Shakespeare Globe Trust finally receives a 125 year lease on the land needed to build the Globe. The Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America) and its regional offices begin planning a new fundraising campaign. J. L Styan becomes president of Midwest region.
1987 The official ground breaking ceremony is held on the Globe
site July 16.
| 1988 A major US fundraising campaign brings The Guards Polo
Club from Windsor Great park to play the American Team in Los Angeles,
Dallas and Houston in September.
The premiere event took place on 5 March near the base of the stony Santa Rosa Mountains of California. The Shakespeare Globe Cup Polo Match was attended by the Duke and Duchess of York as well as Hollywood celebrities and corporate leaders. |
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1988 J. L Styan retires. Hugh M Richmond of the University of California at Berkeley becomes Chair of the Advisory Council and Gene G. Andersen becomes Chair of the Midwest region. Southeast regional office moves to the University of Georgia at Athens with Franklin J. Hildy.
1989 Discovery of the foundations of the Rose playhouse in London is announced on February 14. Discovery of a small portion of the Globe playhouse foundations is announced on October 12. Former US President Ronald Reagan becomes Honorary chair of the Shakespeare Globe Centre (North America) on November 2.
| 1989 Pasadena, California based Ambassadors Foundation donates $500,000 to the Globe. Prince Philip attends reception in Los Angeles to honor SGC(NA) Western Region donors who had raised a total of $1,035,000 for the Globe. |  |
1989 Dr. Richard Cheshire replaces Edmee Slocum as Executive Director of the SGC(NA) in September.
1989 The Shakespeare Globe Center (Canada) is established.
| 1989 Shakespeare Globe cup race is instituted at Arligton racetrack. |  |
| 1990 The current logo was approved. |  |
| 1990 The first international conference on the Rose and Globe discoveries, "New Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Theatre," is held at the University of Georgia, Athens, February 16-18. Franklin J. Hildy, conference director. The three-day conference is followed by a National Video Teleconference , "Rediscovering Shakespeare Globe" reaching 100 institutions across the United States and Canada. (Photo. Teleconference with J. L. Styan, Simon Blatherwick [Rose Archaeologist] Franklin J, Hildy, Sam Wanamaker and Andrew Gurr. |  |
| 1990 SGC (NA) Vice Chairman Gordon P. Getty arranges for The Ann and Gordon P. Getty Foundation to give a $1.7 million dollar challenge grant to the Shakespeare globe Trust. |
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1990 Gordon Schwontkowski's 20' by 30 ' copy of Martin Droeshout's engraving of Shakespare becomes the banner for the Globe site in London, sponsored by SGC(NA) Midwestern Region.
| 1992 First two bays of the Globe are constructed with funding from Americans Nancy Knowles, and Jerry Link, President of the SGC(NA) |  |
1997 The SGC(USA) Midwest Region is incorporated into the national Centre.
1998 The SGC(USA) Southwest Region is incorporated into the national Centre.
1998 Professor Hugh Richmond steps down as Chair of the Advisory Council and Professor David Kastan of Columbia University takes over as Chair.
1999 The SGC(USA) Southeast Region becomes the SGC(USA) Research Archive and moves to the University of Maryland College Park with its Director, Franklin J. Hildy. Louis Fantasia continues to represent the Western United States as the director of the SGC(USA) Western Region.
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1999 SGC (USA) remains committeed to promoting the study of Shakespeare
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