THE GLOBE

On this date in 1613 London's Globe Theatre (which we remember as the site of many of Shakespeare's plays)  burned to the ground. The fire started when a theatrical cannon used in the performance of Henry the Eighth misfired and ignited the wooden beam and thatch structure.

Although the Globe is no more, we still enjoy Shakespeare's work through contemporary performances and print. There are two books on the Bullis Room shelves that we think you'll find interesting, perhaps even illuminating:

1) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: with a full and comprehensive life, a history f the early drama, an introduction to each play, the readings of former editions, glossarial and other notes...) from the works of Collier, Knight, Dyce, Douce, Halliwell, Hunter, Richardson, Verplanck, and Hudson, edited and authored by George Long Duyckinck and published in 1881.

2) Studies in Shakespeare, by Richard Grant White, published in 1885 by Houghton, Mifflin.

The Globe Theatre has been gone almost four hundred years, but Shakespeare's work lives on - thanks to the printed word.