Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA) Globe Research Archive

Globe Research Archive

Our Office provides a link to Shakespeare's Globe activities for Shakespearians at all levels -- enthusiasts, academics, and professionals throughout the USA, but especially concerning the research and scholarship that went into, and is coming out of, the new Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Welcome to the portion of this website that specifically deals with what we are doing to promote Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre. Follow any of the links on your left to visit our various departments, or browse down for further information on what we do here at the Globe Research Archive of the Shakespeare Globe Centre (USA).

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The Globe Research Archive maintains an archive of research and information on the reconstructed Globe in London, where we can preserve the research that went into rebuilding Shakespeare's theatre, and stimulate further study based on the performances at that theatre. Our director, Dr. Franklin J. Hildy, has devoted his career to the study and recovery of theatre architecture.

Shakespeare's Globe and the Shakespeare Globe Center (USA) promote activities that encourage people to see Shakespeare's work as works of theatre to be experienced, not simply as works of dramatic literature to be read. We attempt to achieve our goals in three ways.

First, we have been developing a communication network that inform interested parties about the work being done by the ISGC and its affiliates. We have done this through public lectures at already established conferences and by organizing special conferences, teleconferences and distance learning lectures. We are expanding this by offering interactive information over the internet and serving as an archive of visual and written information on the architecture of Shakespeare's Globe. We will be interconnecting all professional Shakespeare Companies in our region with high schools and colleges, to begin innovative uses of teleconferencing between them and the research being done in London and to develop CD-Roms and other creative tools for education.

Secondly, we are providing opportunities for people to experience the unique nature of the Shakespeare's Globe performance approach to Shakespeare. We have done this by sponsoring workshops and by taking several groups of professionals from our area to London to participate at the Shakespeare's Globe. We are expanding this by developing outreach programs that will take Shakespeare's Globe inspired productions into communities and educational institutions.

We will be maximizing participation in the activities of the Shakespeare's Globe and its affiliates by providing fellowships, scholarships and grants that will make it possible for people to participate in these activities around the world and by providing subsidies that will bring groups from the Shakespeare's Globe, other national affiliates, and other centers, to our area.

Finally, we hope to compliment the Shakespeare's Globe efforts by establishing a research center of our own that would feature a full scale reconstruction of Shakespeare's theatre based on the American interpretation of the evidence. Such a center would provide the basis for an equal exchange of knowledge rather than leaving the bulk of the innovative work to be done in London. Such a center would attract researchers and performers from the Shakespeare's Globe and its other national affiliates to come to the area to learn from our work and it would also logically lead to our researchers and performers being invited to present their findings around the world. Such a center would make it possible for those who cannot go to London to still be able to see the unique kind of performance experience the Shakespeare's Globe approach to theatre can offer.

Questions? Email the Research Archive (globe@deans.umd.edu)

updated on: 6 March 2001
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