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RECONSTRUCTION

2014 Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, an indoor Jacobean-style theatre lit by candles, opens at Shakespeare’s Globe

2012 Archaeologists discover the remains of the Curtain Theatre

2010

Birmingham Archaeology excavates New Place, Shakespeare’s former home

2004 David Crystal and Shakespeare’s Globe collaborate to produce Romeo and Juliet in original pronunciation

MODERNIZATION

2010 2015 “Such Tweet Sorrow,” Oregon Shakespeare a modern, Twitter Festival launches adaptation of Romeo Play On, translating and Juliet by the RSC, Shakespeare’s entire Mudlark, and 4iP collection of works into modern English

2005 2016 BBC airs Royal Shakespeare “ShakespeaRe-Told,” Company partners with tv adaptations in Intel for a production modern English and of The Tempest using relocated to the performance-capture present day technology

DIGITIZATION

Folger Shakespeare The Bodleian Libraries The British Library Library researchers use and Folger Shakespeare lists 18,740 books data-mining techniques Library digitize by or about to analyze the open-access copies Shakespeare in its vocabulary and syntax of Shakespeare’s catalogue of the First Folio First Folio

2012 2014 2011 2013 2015

Oxford Scholarly Editions Douglas Bruster identifies Online launches with spelling patterns in digitally-enhanced Thomas Kyd’s Spanish editions of Shakespeare’s Tragedy that suggest plays and poetry Shakespearean authorship

GLOBALIZATION

2012 2014 The Globe to Globe 2014 The British Festival hosts 37 The Shakespeare government productions in 37 Theatre in Gdansk, donates £1.5m for different languages Poland finally the translation of over a six-week period opens Shakespeare into Mandarin

2007 Kuwaiti playwright and director Sulayman Al- Bassam presents the first 2014 Arab adaptation, Richard First International III: An Arab Tragedy Conference on Shakespeare Studies in Iran

US Circulation US Current global 77% Circulation print circulation 83% of two leading 1,976 293 Foreign Foreign Shakespeare Circulation Circulation academic 23% 17% journals: Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare Bulletin

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