Primary source archive documenting 200 productions of Shakespeare and other playwrights performed in the reconstructed Globe Theatre, including architectural plans, costume designs, prompt books, music, interviews, oral histories, posters, props, performance photographs, and more.
Dates: 1997-2016 CE
An archive of nearly 1,000 prompt books of 34 of Shakespeare's plays, showing how they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the U.S., and internationally. Prompt books feature the the text of play, usually annotated to include cut lines or scenes, cues for music, movement, lighting, and other stage directions.
Dates: 1660s-1975 CE
Primary sources related to the history of printing, bookbinding, publishing, copyright, and bookselling in Britain, as well as the history the city of London.
Dates: 1554-2007 CE
Court records and financial accounts from six of London's principal livery companies trade guilds that dominated the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the city. An insight into labor, economics, politics, and more from the Early Modern period.
Dates: 1450-1750 CE