Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Past and Present: 1. The once and future Globe Ronnie Mulryne and Margaret Shewring; 2. Shakespeare's Globe: a history of reconstruction and some reasons for trying Andrew Gurr; Part II. Varieties of Research: 3. Designing the globe John Orrell; 4. The archaeological evaluation of the Globe Playhouse Simon Blatherwick; 5. Design as reconstruction/reconstruction as design Jon Greenfield; 6. Timber framing, the two bays and after Jon Greenfield; 7. The interior decoration scheme of the Bankside Globe John Ronayne; 8. The iconography of the Bankside Globe; Part III. The Globe in Performance: 9. Staging at the Globe Andrew Gurr; 10. Playing the Globe: artistic policy and practice Mark Rylance; Part IV. Documents of the Elizabethan Playhouse: 11. Selected documents from the Elizabethan Playhouse edited by Ronnie Mulryne.