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Nahum Tate's alteration to Shakespeare's King Lear, popular on stage from the late 17th through the early 19th centuries, leaves out the Fool as a character and provides a happy ending.

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).

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.

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 Lady Macbeth.

Engraving by J. Stow from a painting by R. Westall

Souvenir booklet from the Henry Irving performance of King Lear on Nov. 10, 1892, at London's Lyceum Theatre. Irving performed the role of Lear and Ellen Terry was Cordelia.

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…

The scanned text from Kemble's promptbook for Shakespeare's Measure for Measure includes his stage directions for the final scene as well as his revised final lines.

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.

Etching of 18th century Shakespearean actor David Garrick in costume as Shakespeare's Richard III

These pages detail an incident in which King James shows clemency for the accused, just as the Duke does in Measure for Measure.

Illustrations depict characters and scenes from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or, What You Will.

These illustrations depict the character of Rosalind as imagined by several different artists.

Illustrations depict characters and scenes from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

Selected illuminated title pages from The Edinburgh Folio Shakespeare. Edited by William E. Henley. Edinburgh, 1901-1904.