Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of KJV

Globe Theatre to mark 400 years of King James Bible | News | The Christian Institute: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is to celebrate 400 years of the King James Bible by hosting a cover-to-cover reading of the text next year. The readings, estimated to take 69 hours, will happen between Palm Sunday and Easter Monday.

The production at the Globe is part of a season entitled “The Word is God” and the Theatre says it will interrupt the readings with performances of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The Globe’s artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole commented: “We are celebrating the word, and man’s capacity to make a god of language, and out of language. If people want to take a bit of God, of whatever religion they might be, they are welcome to do so.”