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Watch self-blinded Oedipus confer with chorus leader about fulfillment of Apollo's prophecy in Oedipus Rex
Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet
lithograph poster for Hamlet
Listen to Norris Houghton discuss the difficulty of staging Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago Globe Theatre, London performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost scene from Hamlet
Go inside a Globe Theatre model with Maynard Mack to examine features of the Elizabethan playhouse
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Globe Theatre, London
theatre summary
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A History of Theatre Quiz
American playwright Tennessee Williams, 1955.
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William Shakespeare and Lord Chamberlain's Men performing "Love's Labour's Lost" for Queen Elizabeth I, from the Works of William Shakespeare; etching, dated c. mid-19th century.
A Night at the Theatre Quiz
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Watch self-blinded Oedipus confer with chorus leader about fulfillment of Apollo's prophecy in Oedipus Rex
Oedipus, demonstrating an excess of presumption (or hubris) in his confidence that...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet
“Now I am alone. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I,” begins Hamlet's soliloquy...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Listen to Norris Houghton discuss the difficulty of staging Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Theatre director Norris Houghton considering the challenges of staging Anton Chekhov's...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Go inside a Globe Theatre model with Maynard Mack to examine features of the Elizabethan playhouse
Maynard Mack of Yale University using a model of the Globe Theatre to discuss performance...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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lithograph poster for Hamlet
Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of Hamlet, lithograph poster by Alphonse...
The Granger Collection, New York
theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago
The theatre of the Auditorium Building, Chicago, by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan...
Elliott Erwitt/Magnum
Globe Theatre, London
Celebratory performance marking the opening of the Globe Theatre in London, June...
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performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
A performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Kabul, 2005.
© Tomas Munita—REX/Shutterstock.com
scene from Hamlet
Laurence Olivier (seated), Eileen Herlie, and Basil Sydney in Hamlet (1948).
Copyright © 1953 Universal Pictures Company, Inc.
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