Performance Galleries

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.

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Shakespeare's London, Circa 1576-1642 Date: 06/27/2005 Views: 729	The Curtain Theatre, circa 1600. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 545	Part of Merian's View of London, with the Globe playhouse, circa 1612. Date: 11/20/2010 Views: 216	A View of Southwark with the Bear Garden and the Globe Theatre, as it was before it burned down in 1613. Date: 04/09/2008 Views: 235
the Globe Theatre: a detail of a view of London created by the engraver Claes Visscher around 1616. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 210	The Rebuilt Globe Stage. Date: 12/12/2007 Views: 595	Gdansk Building Used for Renaissance Performances Date: 11/17/2011 Views: 78	16th C. Replica of the London Fortune Theatre in Gdansk, Poland Date: 11/17/2011 Views: 326
The Facade of the Fortune Playhouse. Date: 09/10/2009 Views: 114	Ruins of the Gibbons's Tennis Court Theatre, Previously Used as a Theatre by Killigrew at the Restoration. Date: 09/10/2009 Views: 202	Plan of the Cockpit Theatre as designed by Inigo Jones. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 279	Cutaway Model of the modern Inigo Jones Theatre, built in 1997. Date: 02/10/2009 Views: 426
The location of the private, indoor Blackfriars Theatre. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 222	The Stage of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1674. Date: 11/20/2010 Views: 226	The baroque Castle Theatre at Krumlov matches the 18th C. Drottningholm Palace Theatre outside Stockholm. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 603	Coriolanus at the Drury Lane Theatre, 1808. Date: 07/01/2010 Views: 396
An Audience at Drury Lane Theatre. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 132	The Actresses' Dressing Room at Drury Lane Theatre (1790?). Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 117	An Audience Watching a Play at the Drury Lane Theatre (1800-1810). Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 173	The New Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1813. Date: 06/07/2008 Views: 494
Drury Lane Theatre Green Room (1821) Date: 05/16/2011 Views: 145	The Royal Coburg Theatre in 1822, with a mirror screen behind the proscenium arch. Date: 11/20/2010 Views: 352	Booth's Theatre, New York, in 1869: Design for Act III of Hamlet. Date: 01/25/2009 Views: 480	Eugene CARPEZAT (1833 - 1912): Set for Otello by Verdi. Oct 3, 1894. The Great Salon, Beaux-Arts, Paris. France. Date: 04/05/2008 Views: 281
Stage set for 'Macbeth.' 1921 Robert Edmond Jones. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 409	Much Ado About Nothing: Oregon Shakespeare Festival Program, Ashland, 1965. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 204	Macbeth, ca. 1935.: Orson Welles, Director; WPA Federal Theatre Project in New York: Negro Theatre. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 443	Hamlet at Elsinore Castle: Old Vic Players, 1937. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 315
Stage set for 'Hamlet', Norman Bel Geddes, 1893-1958. Date: 11/30/2009 Views: 339	The National Theatre, London. Date: 06/07/2008 Views: 355	Regent's Park Open-Air Theatre, London: set for a production of Cymbeline. 22/06/05. Date: 06/07/2008 Views: 848	Corral de Comedias de Almagro Date: 12/04/2010 Views: 285

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