Shakespeare Performance.

A hundred yards or so southeast of the new Globe Theatre there is a vacant lot surrounded by a corrugated-iron fence marked with a bronze plaque as the site of the original Globe Theatre of 1599. A little closer to the new Globe one can peer through dirty slit windows into a dimly lighted space in the basement of a new office building, next to London Bridge, where about two-thirds of the foundations of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre can barely be made out.But the difficulty of seeing the earlier theatres in the shadows of the past better represents our understanding of performance in Shakesp…