English renaissance theatre posters & prints

Swan Theatre in 1596 (from Johannes de Witts Observationes Londinienses), 1596 Anonymous

Terence stage, c.1563 Italian School

Frontispiece of 'Pedantius', comedy by Edward Forsett produced in Cambridge in 1581 English School

Twelfth Night, 2007 Neil Bartlett

Poster advertising 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare performed by F.R Benson's Shakespearean Company at the Globe theatre, c.1890 English School

The Comedy of Errors, 1992/3 Ian Judge

Don John, 2008/9 Emma Rice

Henry VIII, 1970 Trevor Nunn

Wolsey's secretary, costume design for Shakespeare's play, Henry VIII Anonymous

Hamlet, 1970 Trevor Nunn

Educating Rita, 1980 Mike Ockrent

Cardinal Wolsey, costume design for Shakespeare's play, Henry VIII Anonymous

Theatre costume design for Shakespeare's play, Henry VIII Anonymous

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1970 Peter Brook

Romeo and Juliet, 2010 Rupert Goold

There Take It Prince and If My Form Lie There Then I Am Yours Anonymous

The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, 1970 David Jones

The Revenger's Tragedy, 1969 Trevor Nunn

Scene from the New Play of Savile of Haysted, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1847 Anonymous

Coriolanus, 1978 Terry Hands

Coriolanus, 1995 David Thacker

The Heresy of Love, 2011 Nancy Meckler

Poster for le Théâtre de la Renaissance. Joan of Arc, with Sarah Bernhardt Eugène Grasset

Playbill advertising a performance of 'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'Crispino e la Comare' at the Shaftesbury Theatre English School

Poster for Théâtre de la Renaissance, la Dame aux Camélias, Sarah Bernhardt Alphonse Mucha

Poster for the Lorenzaccio play at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, 1896 Alphonse Marie Mucha

Amants a comedy at the Theatre de la Renaissance, 1895 Anonymous

Poster for a production of 'Pygmalion and Galatea' at the New Theatre, Oxford, June 7-9 1894 James Hearn

Poster for the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Gismonda Alphonse Marie Mucha

The cast from A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Green Room, Drury Lane Theatre, London Anonymous

The Lady from the Sea Anonymous

The Love Girl and the Innocent, 1981 Clifford Williams

Richard Tarleton one of the first Actors in Shakespears Plays English School

The Dance of Death, 1978 John Caird

Tantalus, 2000 Peter Hall

Interior of the Teatro Olimpico Theater Anonymous