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This imaginative illustration features a lone actor performing on a proscenium stage in the courtyard area of an Elizabethan London inn. Surrounding the temporarily constructed stage on three sides is a densely packed audience. Beyond the confines…

In this scene, a bear chained to a large wooden stake in the middle of the arena prepares to defend itself against the on-rushing pack of dogs. In the lower left corner of the illustration, an animal handler/referee watches the scene with a large…

Acting treatise, famous as the English adaptation of Le comédien by Pierre Rémond de Sainte-Albine.For further information, see Acting Archives Essays.

Prose version published in The Works of the Late Aaron Hill, Esqof Hill's poem, The Art of Acting (1746), promoting naturalistic acting in the English theater.

Pen and ink drawing by Henry Fuseli of Richard III reclining as spirits surround him.

Full-length portrait of Sarah Siddons in her signature role, Lady Macbeth. Siddons wears a long sleeve white gown with matching headdress and shawl. To her left, stand the Doctor and the Nurse. On her right, beside a red curtain is a lit candle.

Half-length standing portrait of Michael Mohun in shirt sleeves and holding a sword.Late-18th-century engraving, based on an earlier portrait by an unknown artist. For more information see: ODNB

Illustration of Southerne's adaptation of Behn's Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave. Oroonoko stands with his right arm outstretched pointing down to draw Imoinda's attention to the dead Aboan on the ground. Imoinda bends slightly to look while touching…

A photograph of a 1936 performance of Wycherley'sThe Country Wifeat the Old Vic Theater in London. For more information see The Victoria & Albert Museum