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This full-length portrait of Dryden emphasizes his sources in the volumes ( Montaigne, Horace, Virgil, Homer) on the table at his left hand. A dog looks up at Dryden from the foreground; an eagle is depicted on the ledge. A distant view of Parnassus…

David Garrick in the character of Hamlet, holding his hands up in fear; in the background are the ramparts of the castle.

Online educational resource designed to accompany and supplement the virtual reconstructed Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1674) in Second Life. Read more here

A section of the reconstructed Drury Lane in Second Life, showing a few of the specific areas associated with the theatre. For more information, read here

Video clip of Act 1 Scene 1 (the "partition scene") from King Lear.For more information about cast and production credits, see IMDb.

This design by Morris Kestelman (1905-1998) was for an interior scene in the Old Vic Theatre Company's production of Richard III at the New Theatre, London, in September 1944.

Iconic actress Vivien Leigh as Lady Anne in Richard III; pastel on paper.

This is the only film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta: an inspiration for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and many other plays.http://jewofmalta.comFor more information about cast and production credits see IMDB.

A theatrical trailer for the National Theatre Live's 2012 production of She Stoops to Conquer.

Clip of televised production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company.