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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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7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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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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A History of Theatre Quiz

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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