The first section of this gallery provides a preliminary account of the origins and current character of the rebuilt Globe Theatre, developed more fully in Gallery 9. The other sub-galleries outline some modest production options, illustrated by the UCB Shakespeare Program, for modern staging of Shakespeare (with a few professional theatre analogues). Photographs are by Velma Bourgeois Richmond, unless noted, and are for educational not commercial use. Clips from several of these productions can be seen in the Video gallery. From when this Gallery was created on 3/28/05 and its redesign on 12/7/07, it received 3,139 visits.

These images relate to productions from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, giving an overview of the developments in theatre styles from Shakespeare's own time to about 1914, with stress on the earlier centuries. Plays included are grouped alphabetically by play title, with production details listed under each title where known. Please note that the later, more narrowly focussed period sections (Galleries 3-9) overlap with the end of this broadest one (Gallery 2), so some related pictures may appear in later contexts (including a few in the Bibliographies and About Us). The pictures in this gallery were provided by the Shakespeare Centre Library, Stratford-on-Avon, by permission of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and the Furness Image Collection of the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania, except for those identified otherwise. They are for educational and non-commercial purposes only.

These pictures from the Victorian and Edwardian periods are arranged alphabetically by play title. This section develops the previous one's last phase, concentrating on the more elaborately "historicist" staging of Shakespeare by such prominent professionals as Irving, Tree, Benson, and Terry. These photographs derive from the U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program Collection and the Yorck Project. They are for research and private study, not commercial use.

In 1900 Seymour Eaton edited a Shakespeare Rare Print Collection of which the U.C.B. Shakespeare Program owns the Connnoisseur Edition. These engravings were published for subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare and Review of Reviews (Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co.). This collection reflected the then current subjects of interest to American enthusiasts and experts in the field of Shakespeare performance at the turn of the century: principally the historical identity of the actors themselves, not distictive interpretations of roles. Many of the pictures from the Collection that are omitted here are conventional sketches of historical buildings or scenes by German artists without specific relation to any performance. However, the remainder provide a retrospective over the contents of the previous Gallery 3 in terms of the American stage. Because of the uneven condition of the originals each image required individual processing to register legibly on this site.

This section includes celebrated performers who flourished or emerged in the inter-war years: Peggy Ashcroft, John Barrymore, Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, etc. However, it also reviews a variety of foreign and non-English-speaking productions from 1900 to the 21st c. These pictures are for educational use, and most appear by the courtesy of the Hampden-Booth Library, New York, the Yorck Project, or of the Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982, edited by Lesley Ellen Jorbin of the Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library, and based on the Clevelandmemory site at http:/www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/ See individual credits.