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The Rover: or, The Banish'd Cavaliers.
Cast list and first page from the first printed edition of The Rover (1677).
The Rover Set Design
Set design for Cornell University's production of The Rover.
The Printer's Devil Project: The Drury Lane Theatre in Second Life
Online educational resource designed to accompany and supplement the virtual reconstructed Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1674) in Second Life. Read more here
The Negro Revenged
A black male figure in a loincloth raises both arms with clenched fists. A woman, dark but lighter than her male companion, leans forward, wrapping her left arm around his waist, with her right arm forward outstretched. The two figures stand at the…
The Negro Avenged
A black male figure in a loincloth raises both arms with clenched fists. A woman, dark but lighter than her male companion, leans forward, wrapping her left arm around his waist, with her right arm forward outstretched. The two figures stand at the…
The Laughing Audience
19th-century color version of William Hogarth's 1733 etching. Well-dressed gentlemen dally with orange sellers while bemused audience members watch a play. Three musicians appear below. For more information see the V&A Museum.
The Kneeling Slave, 'Am I not a man and a brother?'
Kneeling half-clothed African man in chains with clasped hands. He kneels in the red dirt surrounded by water and trees. Above, light breaks from the clouds and shines down on him. Below is a blue and gold banner, reading "Am I not a man and a…
The Drury Lane Theatre, London
A view of the interior of the theater at Drury Lane showing actors on stage and audience members in the box and orchestra seats.
The Audience at Drury Lane Theatre, c. 1674
Imaginative reconstruction of Drury Lane Theatre based on Sir Christopher Wren's images of the longitudinal section of a playhouse.