Volume 37, Number 5 · March 29, 1990
The Dream of the Globe
By E.A.J. Honigmann
Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe
by Andrew Gurr, by John Orrell, foreword by Sam Wanamaker
Routledge, 197 pp., $25.00
Thomas Browne, a theater lover who may well have watched plays at the second Globe, would have been an ideal partner for Sam Wanamaker, the well-known actor and producer. Browne claimed that some natural processes could be reversed—'This is made good by experience, which can from the ashes of a plant revive the plant, and from its cinders recall it into its stalk and leaves again.' Entreated by an admirer, Dr. Henry Power, to perform this miracle, Browne replied evasively—but some years later he was at it again. 'What song the sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture….'
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