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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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Estimated battle casualties, Normandy invasion, World War II. WWII, D-Day

Estimated Battle Casualties During the Normandy Invasion and Campaign to Liberate Paris (June–August 1944)

Artist interpretation of space asteroids impacting earth and moon. Meteoroids, meteor impact, end of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Doomsday Predictions, comet

Major Mass Extinctions

Normandy Invasion: Omaha Beach. World War II. D-Day. Infographic. SPOTLIGHT VERSION

Facts and Figures About the Landings on Omaha Beach During the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944

Demystified - Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? illustration

Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide?

Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.

How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.

6 Lakes That Are Drying Up

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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

Germaine Dulac

Germaine Dulac

French filmmaker

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American playwright Tennessee Williams, 1955.

Quick Quiz: American Playwrights

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