Playacting posters & prints

The Trial, 1866 Charles Hunt

The Police Court, 1867 Charles Cooper Henderson

The Commedia dell'Arte Company French School

Let Justice be Done, 1876 Charles Cooper Henderson

Ivanhoe, 1871 Charles Hunt

Queen Mary At The Lyceum Theatre, Act III Anonymous

Florence Jameson, Reginald Switz and Alfred clarke in a scene from The Blue Moon Foulsham and Banfield

Captain A. M. Boisragon By Acting Consul Anonymous

As You Like It, Act IV, Sc. ii. Frederick William Davis

Scene In Act Iv. Of Young Folks' Ways, The New Play At The St. James's Theatre, London, UK, 1883 Anonymous

Painting Rachel in the role of Hermione in Andromaque, Act IV, Scene V Anonymous

A Comic Retrospect of 1873: Coram Street; Adulteration Act; School Board Entirely Free from Party Politics Anonymous

The Westminster Play Scene from Terence's Eunuchus Act 1 Scene 1 Anonymous

The Five Furres, 1953 Tanner

Julius Caesar, Act IV Sir Joseph Noel Paton

Between The Acts At The Opera House: Merchants And Bankers Discussing The Purchase, Cairo Anonymous

End of the American Civil War the Last Days of the Confederate Government Mr. Jefferson Davis Signing Acts of Government... Anonymous

Sandanme, Act Three Anonymous

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V John Callcott Horsley

Performance of Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin (act III, scene III) Schwalb

The character of Argan in Act I Scene II Edmond A.F. Geffroy

Gallant Act of Commander W.N. Hewett Before Sebastopol by Desanges in the Victoria Cross Gallery Anonymous

Yodanme, Act four of the Chushingura Kitagawa Utamaro

Set design for Act I of the opera 'Khovanshchina', Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin

Scene from Verdi's New Opera of Falstaff, at Milan, Act III., Scene 1, Italy Anonymous

Bostonians Reading the Stamp Act Anonymous

Kudanme, Act nine of the Chushingura Katsukawa Shunsho

Scene ii Act IV from 'Cymbeline' by William Shakespeare Henry Singleton

George Frederick Cooke as Richard III, Act IV, Scene II, 1800 Robert Dighton

Scene from Act IV of the opera 'La Boheme', by Puccini Anonymous

Costume of Madame Vestris in the role of Pauline in Polyeucte, Act IV, 1786 French School

Act II, scene X: the courtyard of the King of Naxos Giacomo Torelli

Hamlet, Act I, 1884 Jean Baptiste Lavastre

Rokudanme, Act Six Anonymous

Jack Hulbert (1892-1978) and his wife Cicely Courtneidge (1893-1980), English actors Anonymous

Illustration of the Third Act of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Anonymous