SHAKESPEARE'S STAGE IN AMERICA: THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE FOLGER ELIZABETHAN THEATRE

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dc.contributor.advisorHildy, Franklin Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorAlman, Elizabeth Forteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-28T06:36:44Z
dc.date.available2013-06-28T06:36:44Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Folger Shakespeare Library, a private research institution located in Washington, D.C., was founded by Henry and Emily Folger in 1932. The Folgers intended their memorial to William Shakespeare, a complex that includes a library, an exhibition hall and an Elizabethan-styled theatre, to promote research and the communication of that research to the citizenry. This study suggests the Folgers, influenced by the Elizabethan Revival movement, envisioned the Folger Elizabethan Theatre to be utilized as an important tool to extend the research function of the institution, a laboratory, of sorts, to further the type of performance research that William Poel, Nugent Monk, Harley Granville Barker, B. Iden Payne, and Ben Greet conducted in early modern production practices. Interestingly, however, performance research was not included as one of the Library's activities at its founding. The author identifies and examines a number of myths of origin about Henry and Emily Folger, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Folger Elizabethan Theatre, suggesting their promotion by Library officials and others has helped to obscure the Founders' original intent for the Folger Elizabethan Theatre. Drawing on archival research this study attempts to re-contextualize the early history of the Folger Elizabethan Theatre with that of the Folger Shakespeare Library.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14089
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheater historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledElizabethanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFolgeren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLibraryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledReconstructionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledShakespeareen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheatreen_US
dc.titleSHAKESPEARE'S STAGE IN AMERICA: THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE FOLGER ELIZABETHAN THEATREen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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