Plays Collection (page 16)

Racine / Mardochee
ESTHER Mardochee, Esthers uncle Date: first performed 1689

Racine / Hippolyte
PHEDRE Hippolyte, son of Theseus Date: first performed 1677

Racine / Achilles
IPHIGENIE EN AULIDE Achilles Date: first performed 1675

Racine / Monime
MITHRIDATE Monime, queen of Pontus Date: first performed 1673

Racine / Bajazet
BAJAZET Roxane, sultana, favourite of the emperor Amurat Date: first performed 1672

Racine / Mithridate
MITHRIDATE Mithridates, king of Pontus &c Date: first performed 1673

Racine / Plaideurs
LES PLAIDEURS the character of La Comtesse Date: first performed 1668

Mother&kids, Cottage Home
Mother holds baby while small child plays with cards on the floor of humble cottage home Date: 1865

Blanchard Jerrold / Iln
WILLIAM BLANCHARD JERROLD Writer of plays and novels Date: 1826 - 1884

Edmund Kean as Hamlet
The actor, Edmund Kean, in the role of Hamlet. Date: 1814

Actress Mary Ann Yates as Electra
Mary Ann Yates (1728-1787) as Electra Date: 1777

Eight children dancing a quadrille
Eight children dance a quadrille while their mother plays the piano. Date: 19th century

Family playing a game of cards
The whole family plays cards around the table, the girls kneeling on their chairs so that they can see properly Date: 1886

Moliere L avare
A scene from L AVARE Date: 1668

Soldier Plays Saxophone
A French soldier with his saxophone Date: Early 20th Century

Practical joke in university town, c. 1820
Students at Oxford or Cambridge play a practical joke on their professors by stretching a rope across a staircase and tripping them up, c.1820 Date: C.1820

Racine / Athalie
ATHALIE Athalie, the widow of Joram Date: first performed 1691

Fay Davis (1873 - 1945), American stage actress Date: 1899

Gilbert: Pygmalion and Galatea
Pygmalion and Galatea: a poster advertising a performance in Oxford. Date: 1894

The School for Scandal
CYRIL MAUDE English actor-manager with his wife Winifred Emery in School for Scandal Date: 1862 - 1951

Francis Beaumont / Evans
FRANCIS BEAUMONT English dramatist Wrote commendatory verses for the plays of Ben Jonson Date: 1584 - 1616

Production of Vile Bodies at the Vaudeville Theatre, London
Production of Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London. Caption reads: When the sea is sick-making: Mrs Melrose Ape, the woman evangelist

Scene from stage play, Votes for Women, 1907
The great Trafalgar Square meeting scene in the play, Votes for Women, with a very effective stage crowd made up of forty actors. The play was staged at the Royal Court theatre in April 1907

Duchess of Westminster - amateur dramatics, Eaton Hall
A scene from Scaramouch an amateur theatrical production performed at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Westminster

Arts League of Service Travelling Theatre - En Bateau
Arts League of Service - The Travelling Theatre - En Bateau - an absurdity. The Travelling Theatre performed a repertory of short plays by first-class authors such as Yeata, Synge, Galsworthy

Quex VAD patients in fancy dress outside the front door of Quex House. There was a collection of dressing up clothes at Quex House and they were used occasionally by the patients to put on plays

Ian McKellen as Alvin in A Lily in Little India
Ian McKellen (born 1939), British actor, appearing in the role of Alvin in Donald Howarths A Lily in Little India, playing at St. Martins Theatre in January 1966. Date: 1966

J. M. Barrie and Gaby Deslys - Rosy Rapture
Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist caricatured by Simpson at the time he wrote Rosy Rapture the stage show in which the French actress Gaby Deslys starred during

Japan - Music Teacher playing a Shamisen (or Samisen). The alcove behind her is called the tokonoma and is the pride of the house Date: 1932

Illustration, John Reeve at the Adelphi Theatre, London
Illustration, John Reeve (1799-1838) in costume as the Great Comic Lion at the Adelphi Theatre, London. Reeve had appeared in plays based on works by Pierce Egan. Date: 1832

Marie Effie Bancroft - English actress and theatre manager
Marie Effie Bancroft (18391921), English actress and theatre manager. Bancroft and her husband were important in the development of Victorian era theatre through their presentation of innovative

Sporting & Dramatic News cover - A Better Ole
Front cover of The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News featuring photographs of three stars of the stage in 1917. On the left is Miss Vera Clarke

Womans dress from the early 15th century
Male dress from the early 15th century, from a playing card in the Royal Library in Stuttgard.. He wears a large hat and a tunic with elaborate collar and cuffs. He clutches a bird in his left hand

The Man Who Stayed at Home - German spy play, WW1
Scenes from the play, The Man Who Stayed at Home starring Dennis Eadie and Isobel Elsom, a play about a German spy in England which played at the Royalty Theatre, London in December 1914. Date: 1914

Herbert Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins, and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion

Geraldine Oliffe as Mrs Pearce in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of actress Geraldine Oliffe in the role of Mrs Pearce, housekeeper to Professor Higgins in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion

Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Mrs Patrick Campbell in the role of Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion, which opened in London for the first time at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914

Herbert Tree as Professor Higgins in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of the actor Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion first staged in London on 11 April 1914. Date: 1914

Miss Ethel Levey in Hullo Tango
Colour photograph of Ethel Levey (1880-1955), American actress and singer, pictured in one of the costumes she wore in the theatre production, Hullo Tango! in 1914. Date: 1914

Marsinah costumes from Kismet
Miss Lily Brayton (aka Mrs Oscar Asche) as Marsinah in Kismet which was revived at the Globe Theatre in London in 1914. Date: 1914

Man playing the violin Date: c.1910

Pygmalion drawn by Tony Sarg
Scenes from Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw which opened at His Majestys Theatre in London on 11 April 1914. The sketches drawn by Tony Sarg show the various characters including Mrs

Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion
Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which first opened in London on 11 April 1914 starring Mrs Patrick Campbell and Sir Herbert Tree as Eliza Doolittle

Japan - Temple of Kwannon at Mizusawa
Lantern slide of Temple of Kwannon at Mizusawa. Mizusawa Temple, founded over 1000 years ago, plays an important religious role as one of the 33 sites of the Kanto Kannon Pilgrimage

The Knitting Club Meets - WW1 American knitting play
Front cover of a short play, The Knitting Club Meets in which a group of American women knit comforts for the troops during the First World War. Date: c.1917

Leslie Henson in Yes, Uncle! during WW1
One of the most popular male entertainers of the First World War, Leslie Henson (1891 - 1957), appearing in Yes, Uncle! at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1918

The Cast of the Better Ole - Bruce Bairnsfather play, WW1
Arthur Bourchier (centre) and cast pose in costume at the time they were playing in The Better Ole at the Oxford Theatre, London which was based on the cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather published in The

Third act of the play Chantecler by Rostand, 1910
A scene from the third act of the play Chantecler by Edmond Eugene Alexis Rostand. Lucien Guitry plays the cockerel Chantecler, the eponymous hero of the play. Date: 1910

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