Welsh-born actress Sarah Siddons, nee Kemble, was famous for her portrayals of Shakespeare's tragic women, especially Lady Macbeth. This engraving shows Mrs. Siddons in the role of Isabella (Measure for Measure), engraved for the Lady's Magazine.
A comedic monologue framed as the catalogue of a waxwork shop, in which Mrs. Jarley gives humorous, often sardonic descriptions of historical figures and fictional characters.
The scanned text is Mrs. Jarley's description of Ophelia.
This watercolor sketch, showing Lear and Cordelia and two additional figures, is an abandoned preparatory sketch for an oil painting. The artist’s large oil painting of the same name, now in John Soane’s Museum, is composed differently and has more…
In 1795 Samuel Ireland issued this volume of facsimiles of documents, purportedly by William Shakespeare. William Henry Ireland, his son, claimed to have discovered them but, in fact, had forged the documents himself.