Playwright Collection (page 3)

Illustration of Seymour Hicks as Richard III at the Coliseum theatre. From a section, London Nights Entertainments'. Seymour Hicks (1871-1949), actor, music hall performer, playwright

William Babington Maxwell (1866-1938) novelist and playwright, studio portrait in pinstripe jacket and tie. Captioned, The Author of "The Rest Cure": Mr W B Maxwell (Son of Miss Braddon)

Lord Howard de Walden, illustration by W Howard Robinson, in fencing outfit with epee and face guard. Captioned I was ever a fighter'

Portraits of William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, author and celebrity
Portrait of Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, author and celebrity Date: 1895

Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writer
Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914

Victor Hugo - On deathbed
Victor-Marie Hugo (18021885) - French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman and exponent of the French Romantic movement. Date: 1885

Kenneth Tynan with J B Priestley
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927-1980), influential and often controversial English theatre critic and writer. Seen here (left) with J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984)

Harold Pinter, English writer, director, political activist
Harold Pinter (1930-2008), English playwright, poet, screenwriter, actor, theatre director and left-wing political activist. Seen here giving a speech. Date: circa 1980s

Epstein portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
A portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist, by Jacob Epstein (this is the second portrait bust made by this sculptor). Date: 20th century

George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and dramatist
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist. Seen here on the right, in old age. Date: circa 1940s

Anthony Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter
Anthony Joshua Shaffer (1926-2001), English barrister, advertising executive, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, identical twin brother of the writer and dramatist Peter Shaffer

Scene from O'Casey, The Plough and the Stars
Three actors in the pub scene from Sean O'Casey's play, The Plough and the Stars (first performed 1926). From left to right, Carmel McSharry (b circa 1930) as Mrs Gogan

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

J B Priestley, British author, playwright and broadcaster
J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984), British author, playwright and broadcaster. Date: circa 1970s

Helene Weigel, German actress with Berliner Ensemble
Helene Weigel (1900-1971), German actress, second wife of the playwright Bertolt Brecht. She joined the Communist Party in 1930

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer

Hanif Kureishi, English writer
Hanif Kureishi (b 1954), English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. Date: circa 1980s

Jacquetta Hawkes, Bertrand Russell and Stephen King-Hall
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996), British writer and archaeologist, Bertrand Russell (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

Photographic portrait of Noel Coward (1899-1973), the English playwright, actor and composer, in 1942, shortly after the release of In Which We Serve'. Date: c.1942

Noel Coward (1899 - 1973) (right), English playwright, actor and composer, talking to Lieut-General Sir H. Pownall during a tour of North Africa in 1943

Noel Coward and Gladys Calthrop, 1937
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973), the English playwright, actor and composer, and Gladys Calthrop, artist and stage designer. Date: 1937

Robert Browning C1889 Iln Import 21 Dec 07 December
robert, browning, c1889, iln, import, 21, dec, 07, december, english, poet, playwright, pictured, prior, death, the, of, and, to, 10220352

Noel Coward and Yvonne Printemps
NOEL COWARD (1899 - 1973), actor, playwright and songwriter with the actress Yvonne Printemps. Date: 1934

John Tresahar in A Trip to Chinatown
John Tresahar, actor and playwright, in A Trip to Chinatown Date: 1890s

Noel Coward, playwright, composer, director, performer
Noel Coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, in a bowtie. Date: 1950

Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw Dominion Theatre 1931
Charlie Chaplin meets George Bernard Shaw at the Dominion Theatre for the UK premiere of City Lights, February 27th 1931

Captioned Marquess of Queensbury, John Sholto Douglas
Vintage 19th century photograph: captioned on the back as Marquess of Queensbury. John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (20 July 1844 - 31 January 1900), was a Scottish nobleman

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur) (1861-1941) (also: Gurudev, Kobiguru, Biswakobi) - an Indian polymath, poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher

Statue of Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller (1759-1805), German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright at Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Date: circa 1909

A portrait of George M. Cohan, 1928 - American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer Date: 1928

A portrait of George M. Cohan in the role of Happy Farrell in his revived play The Song and Dance Man, 1930 Date: 1930

Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926), English playwright and novelist, with a special interest in Jewish themes. Pictured in his study

Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956), writer and dramatist, pictured in his study at home in 1905, part of a series of photographs in The Tatler showing literary figures in their homes. Date: 1905

Caricature by Macmichael of Noel Coward, at that time causing a sensation with his play, The Vortex. The cartoon suggests Coward is so busy he has no time for any leisure

Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. Date: 1875

Sir Richard Steeles House
View of Sir Richard Steeles house on Haverstock Hill, London. Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison

Richard Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816), an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Portrait of Roman Emperor Pertinax
Roman Emperor Pertinax, 126AD-193AD, Publius Helvius Pertinax Augustus. Copperplate engraving from Abraham Bogaerts De Roomsche Monarchy, The Roman Monarchy, Francois Salma, Utrecht, 1697

Page from a 1931 issue of Play Pictorial with an advertisement showing Noel Coward, an alumni of the Italia Conti School, when he appeared in the production of When the Rainbow Ends 21 years earlier

George Bernard Shaw kaleidoscoped
Front cover of The Sketch featuring an unusual portrait of playwright George Bernard Show shown in kaleidoscope effect. Date: 1926

Portrait of Arthur Matthison, playwright
Portrait of Arthur Matthison (?-1883), playwright. 1880s

Playwright Clemence Dane 1921
Clemence Dane (1888 - 1865), famous female playwright. The Sketch comments particularly on her play " Will Shakespeare", at that time still running at the Shaftesbury

Cartoon, Mr William Yardley, English cricketer and writer
Cartoon portrait, Mr William Yardley (1849-1900), English first class cricketer (Cambridge University and Kent) - Always good at scoring. He was also an actor, playwright and drama critic. 1884

Cartoon portrait, Mr Paul Meritt, author and farmer
Cartoon, Mr Paul Meritt (c1843-1895), author and farmer. 1885

Cartoon, Messrs Stephens and Yardley don t like being harassed, and are now running the " Vicar" themselves. Possibly a reference to the comic operetta, The Vicar of Bray

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