America's Fascination with Shakespeare's Stage

Frank Hildy, director of the Shakespeare Globe Center (USA) Research Archive in the Department of Theatre in the University of Maryland, has consulted on numerous theater projects, including the recreation of Shakespeare’s Globe in London. He talked with producer Richard Paul about the modern fascination with Elizabethan stages, a trend that began in part with the 1888 discovery of an original drawing of the interior of the Swan, a theater of Shakespeare’s day. English and American efforts to build stages based on the drawing were part of an attempt to rediscover how the plays were first presented.