The great Shakespeare

Almost every human utterance, with the change of fashion and the elapse of time, loses its appeal. Shakespeare’s doesn’t. Mainly because Sh. devoted himself to man in all his more inevitable relations and qualities, that is, to you and me in all our more inevitable relations and qualities. He speaks to the most spread habits of people which won’t change even in a few centuries. Therefore lots of people are affected by …

…stage. 1000 people could be seated on benches in three covered galleries – and 500 ‘grounlings’ were standing in front of the stage. It’s like an arena like that of a vast circus, flanked by wooden galleries. The top ones are covered by a thatched roof. The American Sam Wanamaker who died in 1993 made his life’s work to rebuild the ‘Wooden O’. It stands now on the south bank ver near the sight of the original.