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Half-length portrait. For more information seeNPG

Video clip from film adaptation of The Beggar's Opera.For full cast and crew information see IMDB.

Ballad printed c. 1687 about Anglo-Irish relations in the reign of James II. Digitized, transcribed, and recorded by the English Broadside Ballad Archive.

Actress Sarah Siddons is pictured holding a tragic mask and a dagger beside a monument to Shakespeare. Resting at the top right of the monument is a comic mask. For further description see NPG.

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…

Well-dressed gentlemen dally with orange sellers while bemused audience members watch a play. Three musicians appear below.See fuller description from the Northwestern Library.

An unknown conspirator meets with Queen Elizabeth's physician (Lopez) to plan to poison her. "What will you give?" In the stark background stands the Tower of London and the gallows, the destined end of traitors. Engraving from Carlton'sA Thankful…

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.

Video clip of Act 1 Scene 1 (the "partition scene") from King Lear. Amateur production by Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Open Stages.For further information see RSC.

The first page of MS. Bodl. 514, fols.1-36, a late 12th-century English manuscript of Geoffrey of Monmouth Gesta regum Britanniae.