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Globe Theatre, London

Design by Inigo Jones for a procession in The Masque of Augures

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Witness Western theatre in the Middle Ages by following a troupe performing The Play of Abraham and Isaac

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The Time a Law Clerk Successfully Forged a New Shakespeare Play to Impress His Dad

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Scene from the motion picture "Romeo and Juliet" with Olivia Hussey (Juliet) and Leonard Whiting (Romeo), 1968; directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

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Jacob J. Shubert

American theatrical manager

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Stewart Granger

American actor

Harve Presnell

American actor

Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian mathematician and writer

Lynn Fontanne

American actress

Frederick O’Neal

American actor

Serafín Álvarez Quintero

Spanish writer

Joaquín Álvarez Quintero

Spanish writer

Eugene Vakhtangov

Russian actor, director, and producer

Jason Miller

American actor and playwright

William Hunter Kendal

British actor and manager

Mary Hayley Bell

British author and actress

Dame Margaret Kendal

British actress and manager

Suzanne Pleshette

American actress

Judith Malina

American theater director and actress

Barbara Bel Geddes

American actress

Lew Fields

American comedian

Patty Duke

American actress

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

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