English 105B: Later Shakespeare
                                                                                                                         University of California, Santa Barbara
                                                                                    Fall Quarter, 2000
                                                                                    Professor Michael O'Connell

This web page is for the use of our class this quarter.  Course materials will be posted to it, and a page of useful Shakespeare links is appended.  Students are welcome to suggest links and to submit their own postings.

Also, make sure you're on the mailing list for the class so that you can participate in the ongoing discussions and receive important announcements. If you've not been receiving e-mail lately, contact  Professor O'Connell .

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More links:   UCSB English Department    UCSB Early Modern Center      Prof. O'Connell's EMC page       Voice of the Shuttle


The above image shows a detail from Wencelas Hollar's Long View of London.  Published in 1647, it was made from drawings done in the 1630s and shows two circular amphitheaters, The Globe and the Bearbaiting House; the titles were transposed during the engraving process, and The Globe is actually on the left.  This is the second Globe Theater built on this site.  The first was erected from the timbers of The Theater, the first purpose-built theater in London (1579), which was dismantled, carried from Shoreditch to the Bankside, and built in 1599.  It burned to ground on 29 June, 1613; the thatch on the roof caught fire when a cannon was discharged during a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII. 
Last revised 26 September, 2000.