Melodramatic posters & prints

The Effect of Melodrama Louis Leopold Boilly

Twenties Stage Melodrama Associated Newspapers

A Modern Melodrama, Don't Spoil My Jubilee Tom Merry

A private rehearsal of Jane Shore, 1790 John Nixon

A cloaked figure before the bed of an anguished man Edward Armitage

Private Theatricals, 1869 Anonymous

Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867 William Holman Hunt

Lena Ashwell in Bonnie Dundee Ellis & Walery

The Giaour, 1826 Alexandre Marie Colin

Theatrical Reflection Anonymous

The Theatrical Steel Yards of 1750 Patrick O'Brian

Maude Branscombe wearing a straw hat and matching dress Unknown

The Actor's Professional Garments, No 3. Costume Design For 'The Magnanimous Cuckold' by Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold, 1921 Lyubov Sergeevna Popova

Portrait of Victorian Sardou Alphonse Liebert

Portrait of Theodorus Rodenburgh, Diplomat and Dramatic Poet Arnoud van Halen

Scene from the New Extravaganza of the Drama at Home, at the Haymarket Theatre Anonymous

The first dramatic theatre group in Warsaw, 1866 Unknown

Hilda Moody, British actress Ellis & Walery

King John Performed at the New Theatre Oxford by the Members of the Oxford University Dramatic Club Anonymous

New York: Sketches from the Theatrical Wardrobe of the Late Charles Fechter Anonymous

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

The Italian Comedians Flemish School

Scene from Mr. Charles Reade's New Drama, the Scuttled Ship, at the Olympic Theatre, London, 1877 Anonymous

A scene from the Commedia dell'Arte Franco-Flemish School

Scene from the New Drama of Belphegor, the Mountebank, at the Adelphi Theatre, London Anonymous

Stage design for the operetta Girofle-Giroflia by Ch. Lecocq, 1922 Georgi Bogdanovich Yakulov

Preparatory decor for the play 'The Princess Maleine' by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1913 Nicholas Roerich

A Theatrical Dinner, 1998 Carolyn Hubbard-Ford

Sicilian Village, Stage Design for 'Dom Juan' by Molière, 1910 Aleksandr Jakovlevic Golovin

Panel of Chinese wallpaper depicting a theatrical performance, detail unknown

Burning of the Dublin Theatre Ireland 1880 Anonymous

A Peep Into the Smoking Room at the Theatre Anonymous

A crowd watches a theatrical performance School Thai

Melancholia Lucas Cranach the Elder

Costume design for the ballet 'Medusa' Nicolas Boquet

Costume design for drama Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, 1904 Anonymous