Comic play posters & prints

Shame and Regret, a Tragi-Comic Play French School

Bartholo Emile Antoine Bayard

Blooooob! Brenda Brin Booker

Maitre Pathelin and Guillemette French School

Bazile Emile Antoine Bayard

Hint to Near-Sighted Officers Georgina Bowers

Suzanne Emile Antoine Bayard

Figaro Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal

Charles Mathews Anonymous

Additions to Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam by David Garrick David Garrick

Trick in the Comic Dance in Mother Goose - Mr Grimaldi & Mr Bologna, print made by O'Keeffe, c.1805 (after) English School

Comic Actors in Performance, 1662 English School

Scene of the cousin's letter Theophile Evariste Fragonard

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911), English playwright and humorist Frederick Downer & Sons

Illustration to Bubble and Squeak in 'Fun's Comic Creatures' published in 1887 Ernest Henry Griset

The Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi with Isabella Andreini depicted giving a performance in Paris Hieronymus Francken

Schnaken and Schnurren, 1866, Mosquitoes and Purring Anonymous

The Martyr Church English School

Caricature of the play 'La Passé', by Georges de Porto-Riche Leonetto Cappiello

Some of the Comic Elements in the Grounding of a Troopship Anonymous

The Comical Romance English School

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

Scene in La Rosiere, the New Comic Opera at the Shaftesbury Theatre Anonymous

The Strolling Players (Los cómicos ambulantes), 1793 Anonymous

Ariane, Mrs. Bernard-Beere Ariane at the Opera Comique, Play in London Anonymous

Such an Unexpected Pleasure! Edward Tennyson Reed

Pierre Jélyotte in the Role of the Nymph Plataea in Comic Opera Platée ou Junon jalouse Anonymous

Caricature of a French Marquise Lucien Metivet

Blowing up the Pic Nic's; or, Harlequin Quixotte attacking the puppets... James Gillray