Globe Education's research output is supported by a thriving publishing team who work closely with the education and research departments on Globe initiated books and academic documents. The most recent is Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment published by Cambridge University Press in October 2008.

Shakespeare's Globe: A Theatrical Experiment

Edited by Dr Christie Carson and Dr Farah Karim-Cooper                                               

Over 400 years after it was closed down, Shakespeare’s Globe re-opened in its original setting of London’s Bankside. The initial vision to reconstruct the Globe has encountered its fair share of setbacks, controversy and scepticism, but ten years on, the Globe is a major London landmark drawing over 750,000 visitors every year.

In this new book from Cambridge University Press, actors, educationalists, designers and scholars look back on the project, giving readers a 360 degree view of this unique theatrical experiment. As the first-ever study of the role of Globe Education the book also shows that Shakespeare’s Globe is not only of interest to theatre-lovers, but has become an invaluable resource for teachers bringing Renaissance drama to a contemporary audience.

ISBN 9780521701662
£15.99
Available from the Globe Shop.

Globe Folios

Globe Education at Shakespeare’s Globe has published Globe Folios to coincide with the plays chosen for the current and previous Theatre seasons. They are photographic facsimiles of plays taken from the First Folio of 1623 and have been produced in association with the British Library.

The First Folio was perhaps the second most important and influential book published in English in the 17th century after the King James Bible (1611). It was a publishing coup. It was the first time an English playwright’s collected plays were gathered together and published in one volume on Folio sized pages.

The plays that have been published are:

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Timon of Athens
Romeo and Juliet
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Troilus and Cressida
Henry IV Part 1
Henry VIII
Macbeth

£12.99 each

Available from the Globe Shop.

Globe Quartos

For every play by Shakespeare, there are over ten surviving plays by other writers from the same era. Shakespeare’s Globe, together with Nick Hern Books, has brought some of these plays back into print as Globe Quartos. These accessible editions are suitable for students, actors, general and specialist readers.

Plays edited:

*The Noble Spanish Soldier
By Thomas Dekker
Edited by Zachary Lesser, 2007

*The Fleer
By Edward Sharpham
Edited by Lucy Munro, 2007

King Leir
By Anonymous

Edited by Tiffany Stern, 2002

The Merry Devil of Edmonton
By Anonymous

Edited by Nicola Bennett, 2000

The Devil's Charter
By Barnabe Barnes
Edited 1999

The Antipodes
By Richard Brome
Edited 2000

*The Poor Man's Comfort
By Robert Daborne
Edited 2005

*The Honest Whore
By Thomas Dekker
Edited 1999

*The Custom of the Country
By John Fletcher
Edited 1999

The Wise Woman of Hogsdon
By Thomas Heywood
Edited by Sonia Massai, 2002

The Witches of Lancashire
By Thomas Heywood, Richard Brome 

Edited by Gabriel Egan, 2002

*The City Madam
By Philip Massinger
Edited by Cathy Shrank, 2005

*A Mad World, My Masters
By Thomas Middleton

Edited 1999

*The Mayor of Queensborough, or Hengist King of Kent
By Thomas Middleton
Edited by Howard Marchitello, 2005

A Shoemaker and a Gentleman
By William Rowley
Edited by Trudy Darby, 2002

*Available from the Globe Shop.