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	The Old Theatre
		building a theatre seems to have been made after the centenary celebrations in 1864.
		theatre, picture gallery and library to be built on the banks of the Avon on land donated by
		W F Unsworth, has been erected to his memory on the river banks.
	www.oldstratforduponavon.com /theoldtheatre.html (335 words)

	Shakespeare - MSN Encarta
		Shakespeare began to assume the role of England’s national poet during the first half of the 18th century.
		This process reached its culmination with the installation of a memorial statue in Westminster Abbey in 1741 and the celebration of a festival in 1764 to commemorate the bicentenary of his birth.
		Shakespeare plays are performed today all over the globe, not only in English-speaking countries but in lands and in languages Shakespeare never dreamed of.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562101_14/Shakespeare.html (632 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, north frontage and car-park.
		The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is a large national theatre dedicated to the British playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is located in his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the English Midlands.
		The Theatre is on the western bank of the River Avon, and the bar/restaurant balcony overlooks the river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Theatre (321 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		It was originally attached to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, which opened in 1879 as the site of an annual festival of William Shakespeare's plays.
		The resident company was called the Shakespeare Memorial Company until 1961, when it was renamed and reorganized into two units, one to play at Stratford and the other to be based in London.
		Theatre puts its focus on regions; Stratford has always been in the West Midlands, but the RSC is now iden tifying itself more strongly with the region than before, Terry Grimley discove rs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-377260.html (679 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		From 1982 to 2002 the RSC was based also at the Barbican Theatre, London, and at the Aldwych Theatre prior (1960-82) to that.
		ARTS: Brush up your Shakespeare; The Royal Shakespeare Company should be a transforming experience for actors and audiences alike, says its new artistic director, MICHAEL BOYD.
		Crowning the wrong head If the Royal Shakespeare Company is to survive, the choice of new artistic director is crucial.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-RoyalSha.html (693 words)

	National Theatre : Shakespeare and the NT : Shakespeare and the National
		Effingham Wilson's proposal for a national theatre was partly inspired by the purchase of Shakespeare's Birthplace for the nation in 1847.
		These medals were struck in 1916 to honour those who had contributed to the Shakespeare Memorial Committee Fund to commemorate the tercentenary of William Shakespeare's death; these medals form part of the Shakespeare Memorial National Theatre (SMNT) collection held at the NT Archive documenting the movement to found a National Theatre.
		The website for Shakespeare’s Globe, a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work, and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of education and performance.
	www.nationaltheatre.org.uk /?lid=7067 (466 words)

	BRITISHPATHE.COM \| SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL THEATRE \| 458.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Panning shot of a large mock Tudor building; the theatre (the large curved part of the building) has been burnt out, the windows are broken and the roof has fallen in.
		Title: SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL THEATRE TcIn: 1:00:01:00 TcOut: 1:01:01:00 Summary: Shakespeare Memorial of the World is destroyed by fire.
		Shakespeare Memorial of the World is destroyed by fire.
	www.britishpathe.com /thumb_pf.php?id=36323 (191 words)

	The Royal Shakespeare Company: History of the RSC
		A worldwide campaign was launched to build a new theatre and 1932 the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, designed by Elizabeth Scott, was opened by the Prince of Wales on 23rd April, 1932, Shakespeare's birthday.
		It is a modern theatre based on the design of Elizabethan theatres with intimate performances created by the close proximity of the audience to the actors.
		The Royal Shakespeare Theatre goes from strength to strength and in the 21 st century it is more popular than ever.
	www.nosweatshakespeare.com /royal_shakespeare_company_rsc.htm (355 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company on AboutBritain.com
		In 1932 the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, designed by Elizabeth Scott, was opened by the Prince of Wales.
		Built inside part of the shell of the Memorial Theatre that survived the 1926 fire, the Swan is a unique, modern theatre based on the design of the playhouses of Elizabethan England.
		The "Man of the Millennium" William Shakespeare, was born in 1564 in the half-timbered house in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon.
	www.aboutbritain.com /RoyalShakespeareCompany.htm (813 words)

	Kennedy Center: Information about Royal Shakespeare Company
		The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre was a Victorian Gothic building originally seating 711 people (53 in the stalls, 158 in the circle, 500 in the gallery and pit) with further seating being added in 1880, 1899 and 1903-04.
		Built inside part of the shell of the Memorial Theatre that survived the 1926 fire, the Swan is a unique, modern theatre space based on the design of the playhouses of Elizabethan England.
		Despite the growth from Festival theatre to international status, the values of the RSC today have changed very little since 1905: the RSC is still formed around an ensemble of actors and a core of associate actors who continue to give a distinctive approach to theatre.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=offsiteDetails&entity_id=5162&source_type=O (1212 words)

	The Royal Shakespeare Company's Theatres in Stratford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It can take about 1450 people, and is built in the most common form of theatre we know today, with the audience on one side and the stage on the other, both areas being separated by what has been called the "fourth wall".
		As early as 1769, the first Shakespeare Festival was held to celebrate David Garrick's Jubilee, and from then on there had been talk of establishing a permanent theatre for performing Shakespeare's plays in Stratford.
		At the time of its inauguration, the new theatre was an architectural marvel of its age, and during the past sixty years it has not undergone any major changes.
	www.cx.unibe.ch /ens/stratford_web/rsc-thea.html (999 words)

	Shakespeare and the Players \| The Plays \| The Taming of the Shrew
		Henry Irving leased the theatre and Richard Dorney as acting manager presented six performances of The Taming of the Shrew at London's Lyceum Theatre (July 8 through July 14).
		The annual Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Festival opened this year on April 22 with The Merchant of Venice; Frank Benson's company also performed Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, The Taming of the Shrew, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, and Richard III (Loney, I, 63).
		On March 16 at the Hudson Theatre, New York City, Margaret Anglin began a run of Shakespeare plays; she directed and played in As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew (Loney, I, 72).
	shakespeare.emory.edu /playdisplay.cfm?playid=27 (1016 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company : Press releases
		The aim is to transform the relationship between artists and audiences, reducing the distance from the furthest seat to the stage from 30 to 15 metres.
		The architects have demonstrated that it is possible to transform the existing Royal Shakespeare Theatre in a way that marries the best of the past with our ambition to create the finest modern playhouse in the world for Shakespeare.
		The Germanic fantasy and towering pinnacles of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre by Edward Dodgshun and William Unsworth.
	www.rsc.org.uk /press/420_3942.aspx (1375 words)

	The British Theatre Guide: RSC Celebrates Irving
		The Royal Shakespeare Company is celebrating the life and work of the celebrated actor-manager Sir Henry Irving, with an exhibition in the Collection area of the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
		He was one of the first people to subscribe 100 guineas (£105) to become a Governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre when it was founded in 1875, and in the early 1880s he chaired a committee to raise funds for the theatre’s new library.
		The exhibition has been jointly arranged by the RSC and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and brings together items from both the RSC Collection and the RSC owned Bram Stoker Collection, which is housed in the theatre’s library at the Shakespeare Centre.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/RSCirving.htm (288 words)

	Article \| The Shakespeare Theatre Company
		She is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company, an Artistic Associate of the Goodman and Seattle Repertory theatres, and a Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University.
		The 2006 Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All is sponsored by The Washington Post, Philip L. Graham Fund, Harman International, Inc., Jane and Sidney Harman, Real Estate Community Partners, The Mary and Daniel Loughran Foundation, The Cal and Jeff Leonard Charitable Fund and The Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
		In addition to its five-play season in its 451-seat indoor theatre downtown in the nation's capital, the Shakespeare Theatre Company presents free outdoor performances each summer in the scenic 3,700-seat Carter Barron Amphitheatre in northwest Washington, D.C. It's a perfect setting for picnicking and enjoying Shakespeare under the stars.
	www.shakespearetheatre.org /news/detail.aspx?id=27 (1264 words)

	Theatre Research Links, Theatre Collection, University of Bristol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		This website provides an overview of a century of London theatre and tells the story of some of the playhouses with the most illustrious histories.
		The Theatre Museum exists to increase the enjoyment, understanding and study of the history, craft and practice of the performing arts in Britain through its collections, which are the largest of their type in the world.
		The Theatres Trust aim is to promote the better protection of theatres.
	www.bris.ac.uk /theatrecollection/linktheatreresearch.html (406 words)

	Company Man
		Shakespeare is a precious national treasure akin to Stonehenge or North Sea oil.
		Stratford, Shakespeare's home town, has become a place of pilgrimage only slightly less sacred than Mecca, with American tourists waddling reverently around the spectacularly tasteless cathedral of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
		Shakespeare's familiar high-domed head, an image that is quite possibly not him at all, has adorned everything from TV beer commercials to the £20 note.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20040301/eagleton (1077 words)

	BBC News \| ARTS \| RSC: Shakespeare and beyond
		Its resident company, known as the Shakespeare Memorial Company, was granted a royal charter in 1925.
		In 1986 the Swan Theatre (440 seats) was created from 1879 theatre remains with funds donated by Frederick Koch.
		A new theatre space in London - The Warehouse - was created from a former London banana warehouse in 1977.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/1247215.stm (473 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company plays (1961)
		But the end result was a familiar one, a lavishly mounted performance, conceived and directed with imagination, and acted by a large, fresh cast in a manner true to the Stratford tradition.
		Tonight's production marked the beginning of the theatre's new life as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a title granted last month by order of Queen Elizabeth II to replace the older name of Shakespeare Memorial Theatre.
		The choice of "Much Ado" one of Shakespeare's livelier and more intricately plotted comedies, offered a gay balance with the four tragedies and one other comedy that will be fitted into the repertory during the remainder of the season.
	www.christopher-plummer.com /rsc1961.html (1294 words)

	The Afterlife: Late 20th Century - Shakespeare in quarto
		The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre is renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and provides a base for the new company.
		Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI plays are cut and adapted into 2 plays.
		Two Gentleman of Verona is the first of Shakespeare’s plays to be given in a reconstruction of the Globe on Bankside.
	www.bl.uk /treasures/shakespeare/late20thcentury.html (277 words)

	Carthalia - Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (old) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Theatre wing destroyed by a fire in 1926, leaving only a shell.
		Subsequently, a new "Shakespeare Memorial Theatre" was built next to the ruin in 1932.
		The building comprises a theatre, library, picture gallery and large central tower from the summit of which a fine general view of the town is obtained."
	www.andreas-praefcke.de /carthalia/uk/uk_stratford_shakespeare_old.htm (227 words)

	royal shakespeare company
		Founded in 1879 as the Shakespeare Memorial Company, it was established when a local brewer, Charles Flower, donated land adjacent to the river Avon to build the first permanent theatre in Stratford dedicated to performing Shakespeare.
		The original Memorial Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926, and the current theatre, designed by Elisabeth Scott was erected in 1932.
		Today’s Royal Shakespeare Company performs not only the Shakespeare plays that are its central focus, but also other European classics, new plays and contemporary drama, and rare works from the Elizabethan repertoire.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /research/lit/theatres/RSC.htm (571 words)

	PETER HALL - Theatre
		* What is now known as the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (and fondly referred to as "the jam factory") in Stratford-upon-Avon was built in 1932 to house a celebration of the work of the Bard that had taken place there since 1879.
		Peter Hall changed the name of the physical building to "Royal Shakespeare Theatre" and established a company to fill it, the "Royal Shakespeare Company", for which he established its first London base, at the Aldwych Theatre.
		His dream was to establish a recognizable style for classical and modern drama, and he carried this ambition through his work at the National Theatre, moving its company from the Old Vic to its new home on the South Bank.
	members.aol.com /xtralinks/petrhall/theatre.htm (689 words)

	Looking for Sex in Shakespeare - Cambridge University Press
		He is General Editor of the Oxford editions of Shakespeare, edited King Lear for the multi-volume Oxford Shakespeare, and has been associated with the New Penguin edition, for which he edited several plays, since its inception.
		However, while the three talks were written for the one-hour traffic of a lecture theatre, Professor Wells has been able to reinstate cuts made for the evening and add post-production thoughts for this published edition.
		Quotations from Shakespeare’s contemporaries are modernized unless there is special reason to preserve the conventions of presentation in the original text.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521832845&ss=fro (1052 words)

	LLL Preview- A Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Love’s Labor’s Lost was performed (though probably not for the first time) for Queen Elizabeth I’s Christmas festivities in 1597 and remained popular through the first decades of the 17th century, then virtually disappeared from the stage for the next two centuries.
		It was not until Peter Brook staged the play at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1946 that critical attitudes toward the play (which held it to be one of Shakespeare’s less worthy works) began to shift.
		A series of notable productions at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon and featuring well-known Shakespeareans like Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, Amanda Root and Jeremy Northam, have continued to rediscover the play’s vitality.
	www.colorado.edu /TheatreDance/OldSite/0001/loves/lllhistory.html (144 words)

	Royal Shakespeare Company : Royal Shakespeare Theatre
		The Royal Shakespeare Theatreâs auditorium boasts a large proscenium arch stage and raked style seating with stalls, circle and balcony areas.
		Opened in 1878 on land donated by Charles Edward Flower, the original Memorial Theatre was a Victorian gothic building with seating for 711 people.
		The original theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926 - the Swan Theatre occupies all that remains of the Victorian Memorial Theatre.
	www.rsc.org.uk /WhatsOn/355.aspx (161 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - The Memorial Theatre on Fire
		Stratford-upon-Avon is famous the world over as the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
		In 1879 William Frederick Unsworth built the first Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on the banks of the Avon.
		It reopened as the Swan Theatre, a smaller house to complement the main theatre.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1683 (175 words)

	Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
		When was the RSC founded and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre officially renamed the Royal Shakespeare Theatre?
		Where were the Shakespeare festival plays performed while the new Memorial Theatre was being built?
		Shakespeare's Birthday Performance is mentioned in RSC brochures.
	www.shakespeare.org.uk /component/option,com_simplefaq/task,display/Itemid,421/catid,16 (851 words)

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