Summary: | Description: The first issue of the quarterly magazine for the Globe theatre. Articles in the magazine include content on: decisions and debates made around the design of the stage with particular reference to the position of the columns, a new exhibition opening in the shell of the Inigo Jones theatre (now named the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); information about the Globe construction and the context of Shakespeare, a story about the construction of the Inigo Jone theatre, thematic similarities between The Two Gentlemen of Verona and other Shakespearean comedies (Dr Pauline Kiernan), Terence Hawkins writing about his reservations about the rebuilding of the Globe, the anniversary of the King's Men playwright James Shirley and Peter Barnes analysing Act II, Scene ii of Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass.
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