WHAT DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE? 37 extant plays (one or more others missing) 19 published in Quartos during his lifetime 36 published in Folio in long narrative poems several shorter poems 154 sonnets
Elizabeth I reigned
James I reigned
First Folio, 1623First Folio, 1623
The folio’s 3 genres:
The Rose Theatre 1587
Blue Boar Inn Yard c.1850
drawing of the original Globe Theatre
Rebuilt Globe Theatre in London (1997)
(rebuilt Globe Theatre)(rebuilt Globe Theatre) the “heavens”: painted roof over the stage balcony – used for playing space, and music 3 doorways to “tiring house” behind stage
Shakespeare at the Globe today thrust stage 3-tiered galleries on 3 sides “groundlings” stand in the pit
View from an upper galleryView from an upper gallery
empty galleries and yardempty galleries and yard
View from second galleryView from second gallery
Musicians above the stageMusicians above the stage
Location of Elizabethan playhouses
Chandos portrait (17 th century)