Globe Education Online

The active and growing area of Research in Globe Education aims to share the discoveries made in Globe performance practice, audience response and theatrical space byour postgraduates and researchers, make in collaboration with the theatre companies. A growing research centre, we also facilitate and produce current research into Globe theatre practice, theatre history and architecture, Shakespearean stagecraft, and early modern cultural history. In addition to a growing publication profile, we run a series of research seminars, conferences and practical experiments that showcase and develop this research into Shakespearean drama.

Globe Research aims to share the work of scholars and theatre practitioners through research seminars, symposia and public lectures.We provide a forum for scholars and practitioners to advance the knowledge of the original conditions of Shakespearean performance through initiatives such as the Shakespeare Globe Theatre History Seminars We also investigate and explore Shakespearean stagecraft and Elizabethan playhouse practice through practical workshops and experiments on the Globe stage which are conducted collaboratively by theatre practitioners and academics. Globe Research conducts dramaturgical research for the theatre productions. We then follow the theatre season to investigate and explore new discoveries made through the performances.

The research activities of the Globe are detailed in online research documents, such as our Research Bulletins (1997-2001), Architectural symposia documents, and ‘findings’ documents, such as the forthcoming Stage Blood Seminar Papers. We publish non-Shakespearean plays (Globe Quartos) that have been performed in our Read Not Dead Staged Readings, and occasional lectures, such as Professor Richard Wilson’s International Shakespeare Globe Fellowship Lecture, Fools of Time, Shakespeare and the Martyrs .

Globe Education and Research offer a well-stocked library and archive, housing an extensive performance video archive, as well as the Original Practices Resource.

 For more information on Research at the Globe please contact Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, by email or by telephone on 020 7901 1439.