R+J Production History Timeline

1564 Shakespeare Born

1582 Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

1583 Shakespeare has a Daughter

1585 Shakespeare has twins; only girl survives

1588 Shakespeare leaves Stratford because he was caught poaching and

moves to London

1593 Richard III written

1594 Two Gentlemen of Verona

1595 Midsummer Night's Dream(1595?)R+J written

1599 Julius Caesar written/1599 The Globe is constructed/1599 Much Ado

About Nothing written

1600 Twelfth Night

1601 Hamlet written

1604 Othello written

1605 King Lear written

1606 Macbeth written

1611 The Tempest/1611 Henry VIII

1613 Globe burns down

1614 Globe Rebuilt

1616 Shakespeare Dies

1644 Globe destroyed by Puritans

Essay: Romeo and Juliet in the 1700's and Later

1934 Dame Edith Mary Evans Appears as the Nurse

1936 George Cukor filmed R+J the movie

Essay: Romeo and Juliet in the Movies

1936 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev wrote "Romeo and Juliet" the ballet

1939 Charlotte Cushman acclaimed by London Times as "far superior to any

Romeo we ever had;" Susan Cushman played opposite her sister in the role

of Juliet

1940 First performance of the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" by Prokofiev

1960 Franco Zeffirelli directs R+J at the Old Vic Theatre in London

1968 Franco Zeffirelli films R+J the movie

1996 Globe Replica built