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Article: The Critics: Theatre - All the Globe's a stage Julius Caesar Globe, London Three Sisters Whitehall, London The Death of Cool Hampstead, London
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1999
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For Shakespeare trainspotters, there is a new book out this month
that is, quite simply, anorak heaven. In Shakespeare's Mystery Play,
the Oxford academic Steve Sohmer uses charts, diagrams and calendars
to argue, through a close study of equinoxes, tides, astrology,
religious festivals, word clusters and references to contemporary
events, that Julius Caesar was the first play to be performed when
the Globe opened in 1599.
There are those who favour Henry V, with its reference to "this
wooden O"; and those (equally serious about Shakespeare) who couldn't
care less. But the Globe's artistic director Mark Rylance is
celebrating the 400th anniversary of the first production at the
Globe by ...