1.Introduction to Shakespeare Staging

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 intended for educational not commercial use. Clips from several of these productions can be seen in the Video gallery.

2. Productions from the 16th Century to The Present Day

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. The last page 5 illustrates the range of theatre stages on which these plays have been performed. Please note that the later, more narrowly focused 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). As noted some of 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. The remainder are from the UCB Shakespeare Program collection. They are intended for educational and non-commercial purposes.

3. Productions from 1838 to 1914

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 Poel. These photographs derive from the U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program Collection and the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License. They are intended for research and educational, not commercial use.

4. Shakespeare in 1900

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.

5. Productions from 1900 onwards

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 (under GNU Free Document License), 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.

6. Productions in Britain: 1960 to 2000.

This gallery covers important or interesting productions in Britain since World War II. among the sources are the professional collections of Donald Cooper, Thomas Holte, and Janet Arnold, provided by kind permission of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (25/1/06) found at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/collections/designing-shakespeare.htm. Other image sources include Velma Bourgeois Richmond (Shakespeare Program); and Ester Inbar (via the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License). Images are arranged alphabetically by play title, and are intended for educational and research purposes, not commercial use. This counter was reset on 11/20/09 after 2937 visits.

7. U.S. Shakespeare Stages: California Shakespeare Theatre & Others

Initial shots show the California Shakespeare Theatre in the hills between Berkeley and Orinda, which is typical of many open-air theatres in the American West. Terry Teachout called it "one of the most beautiful outdoor performing spaces in America" (Wall St. Journal, 7/23/10). Gene Angell designed this polygonal theatre with a ground plan shaped like the original Globe "footprint." A history of CST is attached to the album's first image, listing all productions. Production shots are courtesy of Jay Yamada and the CST. The Shakespeare Bulletin reviewed the CST Much Ado (22.1,2004, 97-9), and Julius Caesar (21.3,2003, 106-8),with casts and crews. Later there are shots of the 2008 CST Pericles and the 2007 Richard III, etc. Then come 2002 CST Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Remaining images are from a score of representative North American theatres active after 1945, courtesy of Internet Shakespeare Editions, University of Victoria (B.C., Canada) and www.clevelandmemory, org/copyright/ Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. Owners of copyrights are indicated, but educational use is permitted according to ISE and CSU.

8. Origins, Construction, and Use of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

This Gallery is devoted to aspects of the reconstruction of Shakespeare's original Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, on the right bank of the River Thames opposite the City of London. The principal sections cover six main topics: the theatrical precursors of the Globe (8.1); the rebuilding process up to 1998 (8.2 ); some early uses of the rebuilt Globe (8.3; some illustration of various aspects of the first performance of Much Ado About Nothing on an early version of the stage of the new Globe (9.4); and the completed Globe and its operation, including what a drama group experiences while exploring uses of the stage of the new Globe (8.5). The images in this gallery are from photographs by Velma Bourgeois Richmond, unless indicated otherwise, and are for scholarly and educational uses. For a fuller discussion of the performance considerations involved in this gallery please click on the first image inside its penultimate section: 8.4. Much appreciated funding for the digitization of the relevant images in this gallery was provided by the Office of Educational Development U.C. Berkeley.