Sam Wanamaker Award 2008

Shakespeare’s Globe has awarded the 2008 Sam Wanamaker Award to Andrew Gurr, Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading, and until recently Director of Globe Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London.

Professor Gurr is a leading theatre historian of the Shakespeare period; at the Globe he spent twenty years chairing the committee that determined the Globe’s dimensions and shape.

The Sam Wanamaker Award was instituted by the Globe in 1994 to celebrate work which has increased the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare, and which has a similar pioneering quality to Sam Wanamaker's work. Previous winners in the field of scholarship include Glynne Wickham and John Orrell, in the field of theatre include Paul Scofield, Barrie Rutter, Stephen Unwin and Cicely Berry. Last year the award was given jointly to Mark Rylance, Claire van Kampen and Jenny Tiramani.

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