Globe Honours 400 Years of Twelfth Night???

Four hundred years after the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the Globe Theatre is rumoured to be planning a celebratory production. London’s Middle Temple Inns of Court is believed to be the site upon which the play was first acted, and plans are being looked at to use the venue for a commemorative show. The original Twelfth Night gala was on 2 February 1602, and since then the play has become one of Shakespeare’s most revered works. A romantic comedy with contrasting notions of youth and age, Twelfth Night received the movie treatment in 1997 starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Imogen Stubbs. The four Inns of Court were initially founded as London law schools, in the part of town now known as Temple. Alongside Twelfth Night, it is believed that the opening performance of The Comedy of Errors was also held there, in 1594. Shakespeare later displayed sufficient interest in the Inns to place them in a scene for Henry VI.

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