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theatre history

general sites - 16th and 17th century - 18th and 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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general sites

All the World's A Stage. WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html] (l. v. September 2001)

Theaterlexikon der Schweiz [http://www.theaterlexikon.ch/D/Index/index3.htm] (May 2002)
Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in Switzerland [http://www.shakespeare.ch/act_V/index.htm] (Oct. 03)

Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html]

The Costumer's Manifesto: Costume History, the history of fashion and dress. [http://www.costumes.org/pages/costhistpage.htm]

History of Costumes by Braun and Schneider [http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html]

Morris on stage. [http://emrs.chm.bris.ac.uk/morris/CClarke/STAGE.htm] (l. v. September 2001)

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] (Jan. 2002)

16th and 17th century

see also: Elizabethan Theatre / Elizabethan Actors

Spear, Hilda D. The Elizabethan Theatre. lecture, slides. [http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/index.html] (April 04)

Records of Early English Drama (REED) research into provincial playing before 1642. [http://www.utoronto.ca/patrons/] (l. v. September 2001)

The Non-Shakespearean Drama Database by Gabriel Egan. (589 plays first performed between 1567 and 1642) [http://www.gabrielegan.com/nsdd/] (April 04)

The Early Modern Drama Database data on performances in London from 1576 onwards [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/earlymodern.html] (last visit: 02/09/99)

16th Century: Faustus, Marlowe and the English stage; Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe; Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation: [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thCfrm.htm]

Thomas Platter (Basel), A Swiss Tourist in London 1599 [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thC/wider/tplatterfrm.htm]

Early modern plays in London presented by:
- company [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/company.html]
- date [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/date.html]
- playwright [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/playwright.html]
- playhouse [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/playhouse.html]

The Rose Theatre [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/rose/]
The Rose Theatre [http://www.rosetheatre.org.uk/] (Oct. 2001)

Shakespeare and the Globe [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/] (last visit: 22/01/00)

The Blackfriar's Theatre [http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/blackfriars.htm] (Sept. 2002

Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (25/04/01)

The development of scenic spectacle on the Renaissance and Baroque stage, catalog of drawings, with animations [http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle/]

Costumes in late 16th Century Europe: [http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/1570to1600a.htm] (05/04/00)

All the World's A Stage. WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html] (l. v. September 2001)

Rosenberg, Marvin. "The Myth of Shakespeare's Squeaking Boy Actor--Or Who Played Cleopatra?" (Aug. 2001)

The World of London Theater (1660-1800) [http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonthe1.html] (May 2002)

Kathman, David J.. Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660 [http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/] (Dec. 2002)

18th and 19th century

The World of London Theater (1660-1800) [http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonthe1.html] (May 2002)

Darbyshire, Alfred. The Calvert Revivals at the Manchester Prince's Theatre (Lecture given in 1893. Published 1912) [http://shakespearean.org.uk/cal1-dar.htm] (Nov. 2001)

The Theatre' Essay on "Shylock in Germany" [http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm]

Classical Theatre Essays on (mainly American) 19th and early 20th century performances and actors [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/classicaltheatre_com_home.htm], e.g. Walt Whitman on the "miserable state of the stage." [http://classicaltheatre.com/walt_whitman_theatre_criticism.htm] (Aug. 2001)

The 19th Century London Stage [http://artsci.washington.edu/drama-phd/19title.html] (May 2002)

History of Australian Theatre Website database, articles, publications etc. [http://www.hat-archive.com] (April 04)

20th century

Theatre History Websites [http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html] (May 2002)

Theatre Image Collections online [http://vl-theatre.com/list14.shtml]

The Golden Age of Theatre (1880-1920) actors, pictures [http://www.the-camerino-players.com/britishtheatre/index.html] (April 2009)

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] (Jan. 2002)

Postcards of Victorian and Edwardian productions and players of Shakespeare [http://shakespeare.cc.emory.edu/pindex.taf]

Shakespeare in Performance: a bibliography (Joseph H. Huebner) [http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/theatre/biblio.htm]

Nelson, Richard. Two Shakespearean Actors (a play on Joseph Papp) [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4656] (May 2002)

Classical Theatre Essays on (mainly American) 19th and early 20th century performances and actors [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/classicaltheatre_com_home.htm], e.g. Walt Whitman on the "miserable state of the stage." [http://classicaltheatre.com/walt_whitman_theatre_criticism.htm] (Aug. 2001)

New Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes, theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (April 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

History of Australian Theatre Website database, articles, publications etc. [http://www.hat-archive.com] (April 04)

21st century

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in Switzerland [http://www.shakespeare.ch/act_V/index.htm] (Oct. 03)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002)

Dessen, Allen C. "Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Shakespeare on the Stage in 2001" Shakespeare Bulletin, winter 2002. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/winter02/dessen.html] (July 2002)

directors of Shakespeare

Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html]

see also: film directors of Shakespeare
see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses

Atkins, Robert. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Atkins,+Robert]
Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert. King John, silent m. (UK, 1899) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000247]
Benson, Frank R. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Benson,+Frank]
Bogdanov, Michael. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bogdanov,+Michael]
Branagh, Kenneth. [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/B/branagh_kenneth/index.shtml] fansites.com/kenneth_branagh.html] see also: film directors of Shakespeare
Brook , Peter. biography (Encyclopedia Britannica) [http://harlem.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/88/0.html]
Bizarre Stage directions: Helen Osborne on an earnest mix of mysticism and the theatre. The Daily Telegraph Saturday 9th May 1998 [http://www.crowleyana.co.uk/media/crowley/dt090598.htm]
King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002)

King Lear (UK, Denmark, 1971) (Lear: Paul Scofield) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067306]
Eyre, Richard. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002)
Granville-Barker, Harley. short biography. Encyclpedia Br. [http://shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/243/87.html]
Hall, Peter. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002)
Hytner, Nick. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002)
Noble, Adrian. A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1996) (with Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117043] filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Noble,+Adrian]
Nunn, Trevor. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Nunn,+Trevor]
Olivier, Sir Laurence. Official website. [http://www.cmgww.com/stars/olivier/index.html]; filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Olivier,+Laurence]
Phelps, Samuel.
Poel, William. -
Strehler, Giorgio. Re Lear (Italy, 1979) (TV [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079779]
Zadek, Peter. Der Kaufmann von Venedig, (Germany 1990) (TV) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0194076]
Zadek, Peter. Endspiel Hamlet (Ekkehardt Krippendorff, 1999) [http://www.freitag.de/1999/37/99371401.htm] (May 2002)
Zadek, Peter. A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne" By Stefan Steinberg September 1999 [http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/haml-s30.shtml]
Zeffirelli, Franco. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Zeffirelli,+Franco]

see also: film directors of Shakespeare
see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses

Shakespearean actors and actresses

general sites:
famous actors and actresses (alphabetical list) [http://actorsactresses.hypermart.net/A/index.html]
Thespian net, actors [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors.shtml]
British actors and actresses links [http://britishtheatre.about.com/aboutuk/britishtheatre/cs/actorsactress/index.htm]
actors and actresses, links [http://www.bardolatry.com/shakact.htm]
Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html]

to go immediately to a list of fan sites, (e.g. for "Marlon Brando") type: [http://www.fansites.com/marlon_brando.html]
to go immediately to imdb filmographies: [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Brando,+Marlon]

see also: film directors of Shakespeare
see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses

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...	theatre and drama studies - journals - Shakespeare and the theatre: Elizabethan theatre - Elizabethan actors - globes in different countries - theatre history - directors of shakespeare (A-C, D-F, G-M, S-Z) - actors - adresses of theatre companies - - ballet - opera
....	theatre history general sites - 16th and 17th century - 18th and 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
....	general sites All the World's A Stage. WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html] (l. v. September 2001) Theaterlexikon der Schweiz [http://www.theaterlexikon.ch/D/Index/index3.htm] (May 2002) Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in Switzerland [http://www.shakespeare.ch/act_V/index.htm] (Oct. 03) Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html] The Costumer's Manifesto: Costume History, the history of fashion and dress. [http://www.costumes.org/pages/costhistpage.htm] History of Costumes by Braun and Schneider [http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html] Morris on stage. [http://emrs.chm.bris.ac.uk/morris/CClarke/STAGE.htm] (l. v. September 2001) The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] (Jan. 2002) 16th and 17th century see also: Elizabethan Theatre / Elizabethan Actors Spear, Hilda D. The Elizabethan Theatre. lecture, slides. [http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/shakespeare/index.html] (April 04) Records of Early English Drama (REED) research into provincial playing before 1642. [http://www.utoronto.ca/patrons/] (l. v. September 2001) The Non-Shakespearean Drama Database by Gabriel Egan. (589 plays first performed between 1567 and 1642) [http://www.gabrielegan.com/nsdd/] (April 04) The Early Modern Drama Database data on performances in London from 1576 onwards [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/earlymodern.html] (last visit: 02/09/99) 16th Century: Faustus, Marlowe and the English stage; Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe; Dissent, Doubt, and Spiritual Violence in the Reformation: [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thCfrm.htm] Thomas Platter (Basel), A Swiss Tourist in London 1599 [http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/nto/16thC/wider/tplatterfrm.htm] Early modern plays in London presented by: - company [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/company.html] - date [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/date.html] - playwright [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/playwright.html] - playhouse [http://www.columbia.edu/~tdk3/playhouse.html] The Rose Theatre [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/rose/] The Rose Theatre [http://www.rosetheatre.org.uk/] (Oct. 2001) Shakespeare and the Globe [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/] (last visit: 22/01/00) The Blackfriar's Theatre [http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/blackfriars.htm] (Sept. 2002 Promptbooks of the 17th Century ed. G. Blakemore-Evans. [http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/] (25/04/01) The development of scenic spectacle on the Renaissance and Baroque stage, catalog of drawings, with animations [http://www1.appstate.edu/orgs/spectacle/] Costumes in late 16th Century Europe: [http://www.costumes.org/pages/timelinepages/1570to1600a.htm] (05/04/00) All the World's A Stage. WWW Links for Theatre History and Early Music [http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html] (l. v. September 2001) Rosenberg, Marvin. "The Myth of Shakespeare's Squeaking Boy Actor--Or Who Played Cleopatra?" (Aug. 2001) The World of London Theater (1660-1800) [http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonthe1.html] (May 2002) Kathman, David J.. Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660 [http://shakespeareauthorship.com/bd/] (Dec. 2002) 18th and 19th century The World of London Theater (1660-1800) [http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~pcraddoc/lonthe1.html] (May 2002) Darbyshire, Alfred. The Calvert Revivals at the Manchester Prince's Theatre (Lecture given in 1893. Published 1912) [http://shakespearean.org.uk/cal1-dar.htm] (Nov. 2001) The Theatre' Essay on "Shylock in Germany" [http://shakespearean.org.uk/shy1-bea.htm] Classical Theatre Essays on (mainly American) 19th and early 20th century performances and actors [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/classicaltheatre_com_home.htm], e.g. Walt Whitman on the "miserable state of the stage." [http://classicaltheatre.com/walt_whitman_theatre_criticism.htm] (Aug. 2001) The 19th Century London Stage [http://artsci.washington.edu/drama-phd/19title.html] (May 2002) History of Australian Theatre Website database, articles, publications etc. [http://www.hat-archive.com] (April 04) 20th century Theatre History Websites [http://www.win.net/~kudzu/history.html] (May 2002) Theatre Image Collections online [http://vl-theatre.com/list14.shtml] The Golden Age of Theatre (1880-1920) actors, pictures [http://www.the-camerino-players.com/britishtheatre/index.html] (April 2009) The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] (Jan. 2002) Postcards of Victorian and Edwardian productions and players of Shakespeare [http://shakespeare.cc.emory.edu/pindex.taf] Shakespeare in Performance: a bibliography (Joseph H. Huebner) [http://www.nd.edu/~colldev/subjects/theatre/biblio.htm] Nelson, Richard. Two Shakespearean Actors (a play on Joseph Papp) [http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4656] (May 2002) Classical Theatre Essays on (mainly American) 19th and early 20th century performances and actors [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/classicaltheatre_com_home.htm], e.g. Walt Whitman on the "miserable state of the stage." [http://classicaltheatre.com/walt_whitman_theatre_criticism.htm] (Aug. 2001) New Shakespeare Company online exhibition (from 1962 onwards, history, photographs, programmes, theatre architecture etc.) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/NSC/home.html] (April 2002) Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002) History of Australian Theatre Website database, articles, publications etc. [http://www.hat-archive.com] (April 04) 21st century Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002) Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in Switzerland [http://www.shakespeare.ch/act_V/index.htm] (Oct. 03) The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/testjon3/] (April 2002) Dessen, Allen C. "Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Shakespeare on the Stage in 2001" Shakespeare Bulletin, winter 2002. [http://www.shakespeare-bulletin.org/issues/winter02/dessen.html] (July 2002) directors of Shakespeare Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html] see also: film directors of Shakespeare see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses Atkins, Robert. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Atkins,+Robert] Beerbohm Tree, Sir Herbert. King John, silent m. (UK, 1899) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000247] Benson, Frank R. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Benson,+Frank] Bogdanov, Michael. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Bogdanov,+Michael] Branagh, Kenneth. [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/B/branagh_kenneth/index.shtml] fansites.com/kenneth_branagh.html] see also: film directors of Shakespeare Brook , Peter. biography (Encyclopedia Britannica) [http://harlem.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/88/0.html] Bizarre Stage directions: Helen Osborne on an earnest mix of mysticism and the theatre. The Daily Telegraph Saturday 9th May 1998 [http://www.crowleyana.co.uk/media/crowley/dt090598.htm] King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002) King Lear (UK, Denmark, 1971) (Lear: Paul Scofield) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0067306] Eyre, Richard. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002) Granville-Barker, Harley. short biography. Encyclpedia Br. [http://shakespeare.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/243/87.html] Hall, Peter. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002) Hytner, Nick. King Lear: A Director's View (Richard Eyre, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Nick Hytner) [http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/bookcase/lear/director.shtml] (May 2002) Noble, Adrian. A Midsummer Night's Dream, (1996) (with Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117043] filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Noble,+Adrian] Nunn, Trevor. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Nunn,+Trevor] Olivier, Sir Laurence. Official website. [http://www.cmgww.com/stars/olivier/index.html]; filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Olivier,+Laurence] Phelps, Samuel. Poel, William. - Strehler, Giorgio. Re Lear (Italy, 1979) (TV [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0079779] Zadek, Peter. Der Kaufmann von Venedig, (Germany 1990) (TV) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0194076] Zadek, Peter. Endspiel Hamlet (Ekkehardt Krippendorff, 1999) [http://www.freitag.de/1999/37/99371401.htm] (May 2002) Zadek, Peter. A time "out of joint": Peter Zadek's Hamlet at the Berlin Schaubühne" By Stefan Steinberg September 1999 [http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/haml-s30.shtml] Zeffirelli, Franco. filmography [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Zeffirelli,+Franco] see also: film directors of Shakespeare see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses Shakespearean actors and actresses general sites: famous actors and actresses (alphabetical list) [http://actorsactresses.hypermart.net/A/index.html] Thespian net, actors [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors.shtml] British actors and actresses links [http://britishtheatre.about.com/aboutuk/britishtheatre/cs/actorsactress/index.htm] actors and actresses, links [http://www.bardolatry.com/shakact.htm] Internet Theatre Database (search for shows, persons, theatres past and present)[http://www.theatredb.com/index.html] to go immediately to a list of fan sites, (e.g. for "Marlon Brando") type: [http://www.fansites.com/marlon_brando.html] to go immediately to imdb filmographies: [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Brando,+Marlon] see also: film directors of Shakespeare see also: Shakespearean actors and actresses
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