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

Toads Playing Snooker in a Garden. England, 19th century Unknown

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