The Bear Garden, the Globe Theatre

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The Bear Garden, the Globe Theatre

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Title:
The Bear Garden, the Globe Theatre
Title (alt.):
From the Venetian map
Title (uniform):
Gentleman's magazine (London, England)
Description:
Published two centuries after his death, this small print depicts Shakespeare's round, open-air Globe Theater situated on the Southwark side of the Thames River, as well as a neighboring arena, The Bear Garden. Abraham Ortelius' atlas entitled "Theater of the World" provided maps as stage settings for global events. William Shakespeare's theater, aptly named the Globe, was a venue for human imagination and performance not bound by geographic borders or distances. Its motto was "the whole world moves the actor," and its sign bore an image of Hercules carrying the world on his shoulders.
Artist:
Misserini, Nicolò, active 1590-1629
Publisher:
Nichols, Son, and Bentley
Date:
1816
Format:
Prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Bear Garden (London, England),
Globe Theatre (London, England : 1599-1644),
Theaters--England--London
London (England)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works
Places:
England > London
Globe Theatre
Extent:
1 print : engraving ; 9 x 20 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
London : Published by J. Nichols & Co.
Language:
English
Notes:
Before page 113 in The Gentleman's Magazine, February 1816. London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley, 1816.
View of the Bear Garden and the Globe theatre, copied from "Londinium Florentissima Brittaniae urbs emporiumque toto orbe celeberrimum" / Nicolo Misserini, 1629; Misserini's view was a copy after Visscher's panorama of London, 1616.
"Gent. Mag. Feb. 1816. Pl. II. p. 113."
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "Shakespeare’s Here and Everywhere" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2016-2017.
Identifier:
06_01_015726
Call #:
AP4 .G3
Barcode:
30000005817478