This Wooden 'O': Shakespeare's Globe Reborn

by Barry Day

Overview

Published to great acclaim in association with the Shakespeare Globe Trust, a magisterial account of American actor/director Sam Wanamaker's 25-year battle to rebuild Shakespeare's Globe Theatre near its original site by the Thames. With over sixty black-and-white illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781870259491
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/23/1996
Pages:	330
Product dimensions:	1.00(w) x 1.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Educated Balliol College, Oxford. (M.A.) Retired from a career in international advertising in the mid-1990s to write fulltime. Worked with Sam Wanamaker to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe. (Board Member of International Shakespeare Globe Centre UK) and Shakespeare Globe Centre (U.S.); Board Member of Covent Garden Festival. In addition to his published work, has devised and presented musical theatre events at NY Public Library of Performing Arts, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Museum of TV & Radio, Carnegie Hall and The Players, as well as Chicago’s Humanities Festival.
Lives in New York and London.