Shakespeare in 1900

This slideshow presents engravings that were published in a Shakespeare Rare Print Collection in 1910, which was sent to subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare and Review of Reviews.

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The Globe as Seen in 1900
William Shakespeare, Drawn After the Chandos Portrait
Richard Burbage (1567-1619)
Edward Alleyn (1566-1626)
John Lowin After a Portrait in the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford
Nathaniel Field
Thomas Betterton (1635-1710)
David Garrick (1717-1779)
Macbeth, David Garrick as Macbeth
Peg Woffington (1714-1760)
Kitty Clive (1711-1785)
Falstaff Examines His Recruits
Mr. Barry as Timon
John Philip Kemble (1757-1823)
John Philip Kemble as Hamlet
Mrs. Sarah Siddons, Sister of J.P. Kemble (1755-1831)
Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) as the Tragic Muse
Charles Kemble (1775-1854)
Charles Kemble as Romeo
Charles Kemble as Cromwell in Henry VIII
Charles Kemble as Vincentio
Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)
George Frederick Cooke (1756-1812) as Iago
Charles Kean (1811-1868) as Richard III
Richard Cook as Richard III
Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852) as Richard III
Edwin Booth (1833-1893)
William Charles Macready (1793-1873) as Macbeth
C.W. Couldock (1815-1898) as Hamlet
John McCullough (1832-1885) as Coriolanus
Charlotte Cushman (1816-1876) as Romeo
Samuel Phelps (1804-1878)
Mr. Phelps and Miss Glyn in Hamlet
John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)
Buckstone as Launcelot Gobbo
Mr. Fawcett as Touchstone (1819)
Sir John Falstaff and the Hostess (1662)
Mr. James Hackett (1800-1871) as Falstaff
Charles Fisher as Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor (1872, revived 1884).
Charles Bass (1803-1863) as Malvolio
Charles Kean (1811-1868)
Charles Dillon as Othello (1856)
Mr. Charles Dillon (1819-1891) as Hamlet
Charles Fechter (1824-1879) as Hamlet
Henry Irving (1838-1905)
Falstaff in a Stuart Indoor Theatre
Copy of the Chandos Portrait
Six Surviving Signatures of Shakespeare
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