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Image Description: This detailed view depicts two key Bankside (i.e., located along the south bank of the Thames River) entertainment options for Elizabethan audiences: the second Globe Theater and the nearby Bear-baiting Arena. Across the Thames…

Image Description: This detailed view depicts two key Bankside (i.e., south of the Thames) entertainment options for Elizabethan audiences: the Rose Theatre (which is actually mislabeled on Visscher's original as the Globe) and Bear-baiting Arena.…

Glynne Wickham's description of Salisbury Court, a late seventeenth-century playhouse.

Portrait of Garrick and his wife. Garrick sits facing the audience in a blue and gold. Leaning on his right hand, he holds a quill, he holds his left out outstretched. Behind him, standing is his wife in a gold gown preparing to pluck the quill from…

Oil painting of a 1763 performance of a climactic scene of John Vanbrugh's comedy The Provok'd Wife. Sir John Brute (David Garrick) wearingelaborate female attire--a pink bonnet and yellow embroidered hooped skirt--defies seven night watchmen who…

David Garrick with his right armed raised and left hand on his breast delivering his ode to Shakespeare. He is standing in the front right of the statue of Shakespeare by Roubiliac. For further information, please see the V&A.

Ceramic sculpture of David Garrick (1717-1779) as Richard III, dated 1772.

David Garrick in the character of Richard III, holding a dagger in his left hand with his right hand outstretched. In the foreground is a suit of armor; in the background in the tent are a crucifix and a crown. Outside the tent, men huddle around a…

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

Bust-length portrait of David Garrick as Hamlet. His eyes are wide in terror and his hair appears to stand on end (likely his famous 'fright wig') at an invisible horror.