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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…

This sketch purportedly represents an interior view of the Swan Theatre, from the vantage point opposite center stage at roughly eye level with the roof (tectum). It depicts a raised proscenium stage jutting out prominently into the groundling…

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.…

Engraved half-length portrait of John Gay. Below is an inscription: "M. John Gay, Author of the Beggar's Opera/ His Epitaph wrote by himself./ Life is a Jest, & all things show it,/ I thought so once, but now I know it./ To Alexander Pope Esq:…

Posing as Venus with Cupid, Nell Gwyn lounges with her child at her right and a vase on her left against a natural setting. Portrait commissioned by Charles II.

Cast list and first page from the first printed edition of The Rover (1677).

Watercolor of the exterior of Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre.

Formal portrait of Charles II seated on the throne in full regalia. For more information, see The Royal Collection

Rochester stands with manuscript in left hand, while his right bestows laurels on a monkey, who is handing him torn pages of a book.