SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE RECONSTRUCTION, LONDON
The sun setting on the reconstructed Globe Theatre in Southbank, London, England Photo ©Heather Shimmin Is there validity in reconstruction, in creating a facsimile, a copy, a replica? Can a reproduction be just as valuable as the original? The answer is yes and the evidence is Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GLOBE THEATRE Wenceslaus Hollar’s “The Long View of London from Bankside,” 1647 (detail) There have been three