Wilson favored woman suffrage at the state level, but held off support for a nationwide constitutional amendment because his party was sharply divided, with the South opposing an amendment on the grounds of state's rights. The only Southern state to give their women the vote was Arkansas. The NWP in 1917â1919 repeatedly attacked Wilson and his party for not enacting an amendment. Wilson, however, kept in close touch with the much larger and more moderate suffragists of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
What plays were performed at the Globe?Probably the first Shakespeare play to be performed at the Globe was Julius Caesar, in 1599. Some other Shakespeare plays first performed there are: As You Like It; Hamlet; Measure for Measure; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.Other playwrights wrote for the Globe, including Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker and John Fletcher.What happened to the first Globe?Disaster struck the Globe in 1613. On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeareâs Henry VIII, some small cannons were fired.ichard Burbage was the companyâs leading actor. They had played at the Theatre, built by the Burbage family on land leased from a Mr Allen. In 1597, Allen refused to renew the lease. However the Burbages owned the Theatre because the lease said they owned anything built on the land.
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The Globe was the primary home of Shakespeare's acting company beginning in late 1599, and it is a possibility that As You Like It was written especially for the occasion.