Welcome to the Early Modern British Theater: Access (EMBTA) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
We collect multimedia resources related to British theater and dramatic literature from 1500-1800, so that students can encounter drama as the multisensorial and collaborative artform that it has always been.
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Thirty Different Likenesses of David Garrick [Garrick and Hogarth, or the Artist Puzzled]

Mechanical print (two-part print in which top sheet has openings and bottom sheet is a moving wheel, allowing viewer to rotate through different…