300px, The reconstructed Globe in London The Shakespeare's Globe Centres are international centres for theatrical education and for the promotion of the

Shakespeare's Globe Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays, in the London Borough of Southwark, on the south bank of the River Thames. The original theatre was built in ...

in London, their nucleus organisation.

Shakespeare Globe Centre Canada

The Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada was founded in

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in 1985 by Christina and Lyle Blair as a not-for-profit organisation, with a board including

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and

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Shakespeare Globe Centre Germany

The SGC (Shakespeare Globe Zentrum Deutschland) was founded in 1991 after

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experienced the Bremer Shakespeare Company's productions of ''

The Taming of the Shrew ''The Taming of the Shrew'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken ...

'' and ''

Antony and Cleopatra ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (First Folio title: ''The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King's Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around ...

'' at the Globe Theatre in

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and directed by the company's co-founder Norbert Kentrup. It was officially registered in December 2000, and its boardmembers include Kentrup, Dagmar Papula, Heinz Abeling (SET) and Dr. Vanessa Schormann.

Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand

visited New Zealand in 1990, and the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand was founded in

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the following year by Dawn Sanders. Through it, the Wellington Shakespeare Society contributed what are now called the New Zealand Hangings, tapestries for scenery at the Globe.

Shakespeare Globe Centre USA

The Shakespeare Globe Centre USA, in

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, was the first to be founded, in 1974, as a launchpad for the reconstruction of the Globe Theatre in London.

References

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