Professor Tom Bishop is the author of Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder (Cambridge, 1996), the translator of Ovid’s Amores (Carcanet, 2003), and the co-editor of the annual Shakespearean International Yearbook. He is currently working on a book on Shakespeare’s theatre games.
With over 50,000 tickets sold, the Pop-up Globe has been a remarkable commercial success. But is it historically accurate? And should it be?