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Shakespeares Globe Marlowe is depicted on the second stamp - nearly all his plays were presented at the Rose Royal Mail News theatre. Shakespeare himself features on the centre stamp, with characters from his plays (from left to right) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, Falstaff, and Bottom the Weaver. The bear on the fourth stamp Shakespeare’s Globe Stamps reminds us that the Hope was built as a Five 25p stamps commemorating the opening of convertible theatre-cum-bcarbaiting ring. The the replica Globe Theatre on London’s South flag shown on the final stamp is based on the Bank go on sale at post offices, and philatelic tradition that the signboard at the Globe had a outlets on 8 August. The stamps, printed in a figure of Hercules supporting the Globe upon horizontal se-tenant strip, cover the basic inland his shoulders. The designer has transferred this 1st class letter rate and the basic rate for letters to to the flag. These tiny representations add an EU countries. element of fun to the stamps and students of the The designs, by C Walter Hodges, feature plays and Elizabethan social history will enjoy London theatres of the reigns of Elizabeth I and identifying characters and tradesmen. James I/VI: The Swan (1595), The Rose (1592), the original Globe (1599), The Hope (1613), and The Theatres the second Globe (1614). The designs form a The early London theatres were established in composite picture of the London riverside, with Bishopsgate and Shoreditch where the leading the theatres linked by a path. The sequence of figure was one James Burbage. Later Philip the theatres (from left to right) is in Henslowe pioneered theatres on Bankside, south topographical order (west to east), not date of the Thames, where the Liberty of the Clink in order. The serpentine path which links them Southwark gave freedom from City jurisdiction. represents Maid Lane (now still surviving for a Henslowe, originally a dyer and starchmaker, short distance as Park Street). bought the Little Rose Inn on the South Bank in Numerous spectators, entertainers and 1585 and there built the Rose Theatre. From characters from the plays are depicted on the 1591 until his death in 1616 he was in stamps. On the first we see the usual hucksters partnership with the prominent actor Edward and hawkers and a quack doctor, here called Dr “Ned” Alleyn (1566-1626), founder of Dulwich Dee (because, says the designer, “it’s a short College. Shakespeare is believed to have played name”) representing popular science. The lads at the Rose. looking after the customers’ horses reminds us The Globe was erected by Richard Burbage of the legend of Shakespeare beginning his (c.1567-1619) and his brother Cuthbert, sons of theatrical career in this way. Christopher the actor James (died 1597), who built the 300 British Philatelic Bulletin - Vol. 32, June 1995 Shoreditch and Blackfriars theatres. The Globe Theatre. It became his passion to recreate brothers built the Globe in late 1598/early 1599 the place where so many of Shakespeare’s plays and used it for summer performances; it was were performed. In 1987 Wannamaker’s Friends intended that the Blackfriars should be used in of the Globe acquired land 300 yards from the the winter months. To raise money for the original site. By the time digging started, some Globe, Cuthbert Burbage parted with his half­ £3 million had already been spent. The share to six actors, of whom Shakespeare was reconstruction is as close as possible to the one. Shakespeare acted with the King’s original, mostly in oak, using wooden pegs to Company at the Globe until 1612. Hamlet join the structure. The bricks are made from (1602), Othello (1604), Macbeth and King Lear London clay. One change from Elizabethan (1606), and others of his plays were all produced times - the new theatre will include toilets! here. The theatre could accommodate an Visitors to the new Globe will be able to enjoy audience of up to 3000. The original Globe innovative new plays as well as the works of burned down in June 1613 when the thatched Shakespeare. roof caught fire during a performance of Henry Enquiries about the theatre should be VIII. Fortunately there was no loss of life and the addressed to: Shakespeare’s Globe, Bear actors rescued manuscripts of Shakespeare’s Gardens, Bankside, LONDON SEI 9EB. plays. Theatres fell foul of the Puritans and the Globe was closed in 1642 and demolished two William Shakespeare years later. Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon in The Swan theatre, stood on what is now Paris April 1564, son of a glove maker and leather Garden from 1595 to 1633. The performance craftsman. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway, there in 1597 of a play reflecting on government they had one son and two daughters. By 1592 - Hie Isle of Dogs by Thomas Nashe and Ben Shakespeare was working an an actor and Jonson - provoked a Privy Council order playwright in London. Amongst the earliest plays commanding the plucking down of the theatres. were The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Fortunately the threat was not carried out. All’s Well that Ends Well, The Taming of the Shrew, Near Bear Gardens (site of an Elizabethan The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and King John. bear pit) stood, from 1614 to 1656, the Flope Originally he worked with Lord Pembroke’s Theatre. A Georgian warehouse on, or near, the Company, but, by 1595, was a member, with site now houses a small theatre museum. Richard Burbage, of a company called The Lord Chamberlain’s Men. In 1601 the Company Rebuilding the Globe offended Elizabeth I by performing Richard II on One man’s name will always be associated with the eve of the rebellion by the Earl of Essex. A the reconstructed Globe - film-director Sam play on the overthrow of a monarch was ill- Wannamaker (1919-73) who in 1949 found that timed. only a plaque on a wall was all to be seen of the Later James I/VI granted a royal patent to the British Philatelic Bulletin - Vol. 32, June 1995 301 J w/STW*’ 300 m Robinson Manorbier Pn^ ILKESTON R d Derbyshire DE7 4AB /Thc\ creator of \ the first Globe wot the theatre companyf ounded by \ Jninet Hinbajie in 1504. \ j Hnrbnyic, a carpenter i inn ’ \ | L turned acm-manapcr bad built X. ....... playboiitc, The Thalm. 4a re-named Gl- •erfiilrfile/ ir^ That year Xlafel^iijidiortnur^^^^ i> wat afithloiiablf arebltoet luinfl in his profeniou when he heard the / \ aetor lecture about hit / \ plant. He offered \\hit l/elp, /7 lhe Wanamaker and Crotby partnerthlp determined that Shaketpeare’t orljjlnol theatre for the thy arehi- the iv-ereation mint be mode with exactly the tame maferialt J teet and the dcmonitrativc aetor than either could bare and tkillt of 401) yean apo -freon oak ffaminji with feared, oppmed at they were Initially by polltieiant. walk of lime, hair and plotter - reteorehed at paintiak- arehneolqpitft, hitroriam and local huemtproupt. All were itiflly at the deti/m of the building Inclf The ivereated ^1, Ej eventually iron overt bnlldiiip work finally bejjan In 1088. Globe it in ffet the flrtt thatched bnildinjj to be erected in Sadly, at well at beinp the triumph of both men, the Interna- l.ondon tiiice the Great Fire oflfififi, Nor a tinjile nut or ritual Shaketpeave Globe Centre It their memorial. Neither hat bolt joint any of the oak itrucmre - all it joined lif ether MRll - lived tn tee the completion of the project which occupied with wooden peft and the knowledge of /killed matter them fir n quarter of a century. Sam Wanamaker died crafitworken. J It ivat to be a fir harder journey to in December 1003 and Tbco Crotby in September 1004, Can thi» cockpit hold the va»ty field* el franco* Or may we C'om within lhi» wooden O the very co»que» ihoi did offrlght the air ar Agincourt* mini* * 302 British Philatelic Bulletin - Vol. 32, June 1995 Company which was then renamed The King’s Harold Speed and Clive Gardiner, and where he Men. When plague closed the theatres, the became great friends with Norman Hepple and Company played at Wilton House, Somerset Rowland Hilder. Graham Sutherland had just House, and in the Banqueting House at left but Mr Hodges recalls him returning to use Whitehall Palace. After the original Globe was the etching presses. His father, an advertising burned down in 1613, Shakespeare took no manager with Lever Brothers, introduced him to further part in the Company or in the rebuilding artists and was instrumental in getting him his of the playhouse. He retired to Stratford, where first job, with R P Gossop. He went on to he died in 1616, aged just 52. become an illustator in advertising and for Some of his plays were published during his magazines, especially Radio Times with which he lifetime, although he made no efforts to see his is proud to have been associated, describing it as plays in print. In 1623 the famous First Folio “a great influence... it took over what Punch had edition, prepared by John Hemmings and Henry done, and represented the best of British Condell, appeared. This included the well- illustrators.” His first work in book illustration known portrait of Shakespeare by Martin was in 1933 and his writing career began four Droeshout which was reproduced on four of the years later. He served in the Army during the 1964 Shakespeare Festival stamps (see below). Second World War.
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