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Half-length portrait.For more information, seeYale Center for British Art

Half-length portrait. For more information, seeNPG

half-length standing portrait, part of Kneller's Kit-Cat Club portraits. For more information, see NPG

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

Online educational resource designed to accompany and supplement the virtual reconstructed Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (1674) in Second Life. Read more here

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.

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

Satirical engraving of eighteenth-century wigs drawn as they were worn at the late coronation of George III and Queen Charlotte. Wigs are measured 'architectonically' and put in a hierarchy of five groups, eachbearing annotations using mock…

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.

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