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Dr. John Adams Globe Play House Analysis

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Dr. John C. Adams drew 15 scale models of the Globe playhouse, as the original might have looked. Dr. Adams wrote many books about the Globe, but his most famous was The Globe Playhouse. The Harvard University Press published it in 1942, and it is now widely recognized as “the most complete and integrated statement that Shakespearean scholarship has yet produced” (Irwin Smith). His main purpose of drawing these blueprints was to put his conclusions into a three-dimensional form by creating a scale model. He finished it in early 1950. Anyone who has adequate knowledge about the Globe can interpret his drawings, but a teenager or young adult who may not be familiar with The Globe would most likely be able to visualize what Adams had planned for

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