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Half-length (and only known) portrait of Sir George Etherege.

Scene design from University of Florida's recent production of Man of Mode.

In this full-length, official portrait from Dulwich College, Alleyn wears a black hat and black gown, with a white ruffled collar. He holds his right hand up to his chest, displaying his signet ring on his right pinkie finger. In his left hand, he…

title page for Man of Mode in 1676, the year it was first performed at Duke's Theatre.

Engraving of an early eighteenth-century coffeehouse.

title page of the second edition of Collier's pamphlet

Angellica threatens Willmore with a pistol in the Rover (Act V, Scene i).

Imaginative reconstruction of Drury Lane Theatre based on Sir Christopher Wren's images of the longitudinal section of a playhouse.

Scale reconstruction of Drury Lane Theatre.

Oil painting of a final climactic scene of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. Macheath stands chained between Lucy Lockit and Polly Peachum who are both pleading with their fathers for his death sentence to be revoked. The live audience is…