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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

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Sailboat against a beautiful landscape

Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics

10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

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Struggling English museums, galleries and theatres get £270m rescue fund from government • Feb. 21, 2025, 12:22 AM ET (BBC)

Theatre artist calls upon younger generation to nurture theatre • Feb. 14, 2025, 4:36 AM ET (The Hindu)

Life cut short: Theatre director and actor Saurabh Gharipurikar passes away in Hyderabad • Feb. 12, 2025, 6:26 AM ET (The Hindu)

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lithograph poster for Hamlet

theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago

Globe Theatre, London

performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

scene from Hamlet

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

Listen to Norris Houghton discuss the difficulty of staging Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Go inside a Globe Theatre model with Maynard Mack to examine features of the Elizabethan playhouse

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Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir

president of Iceland

Henry Bauchau

Belgian author

Poster for the stage adaptation of J.M. Barrie's The Little Minister, starring Maude Adams and presented by Charles Frohman, c. 1897.

Charles Frohman

American theatrical manager

Albee, Edward Franklin

Edward Franklin Albee

American theatrical manager

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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

Shadow puppet (wayang kujlit), Indonesia. (puppetry, theater, theatre)

A History of Theatre Quiz

American playwright Tennessee Williams, 1955.

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