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Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet

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performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

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lithograph poster for Hamlet

theatre of the Auditorium Building in Chicago

Globe Theatre, London

performance of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost

scene from Hamlet

Watch self-blinded Oedipus confer with chorus leader about fulfillment of Apollo's prophecy in Oedipus Rex

Watch Shakespeare's tragic protagonist Hamlet deliver a soliloquy in the second act of Hamlet

Listen to Norris Houghton discuss the difficulty of staging Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

Go inside a Globe Theatre model with Maynard Mack to examine features of the Elizabethan playhouse

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William Shakespeare and Lord Chamberlain's Men performing "Love's Labour's Lost" for Queen Elizabeth I, from the Works of William Shakespeare; etching, dated c. mid-19th century.

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