Mr. James Bennett as Iago: "That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it. That she love him, 'tis apt, and of great credit" (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)

Mr. Edward Eddy as Posthumous: "Kneel not to me" (Cymbelline, Act 5, Scene 5)

Martin & Johnson, New York, Edward Eddy, William Shakespeare

Mr. Jamieson as Brutus: "I would not Cassius; Yet I love him well" (Julius Caesar Act I, Scene II)

Martin & Johnson, New York, George W. Jamieson, William Shakespeare

Mr. Dyott as Leontes: "I have drank and seen the Spider" (Winter's Tale, Act 2, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, Martin & Johnson, New York, John Dyott, William Shakespeare

Man in Venetian costume standing before a large fireplace, right arm outstretched

Anonymous, Italian, 18th or early 19th century

Edmund Kean as Richard III

George Cruikshank, Edmund Kean, William Shakespeare

Mr. Kean in the Character of Richard the Third

George Cruikshank, After Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Samuel Knight, Edmund Kean, William Shakespeare

Edmund Kean as Richard III

Possibly by John Byrne, Edmund Kean, William Shakespeare

Mr. Kean in the Character of Macbeth

Henry Meyer, After George Henry Harlow, James Dunford, Edmund Kean, William Shakespeare

A Portrait: Lord Petersham

Thomas Rowlandson

Mr. Choiseul, (called le Duc), plate 502

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Costumed Actor

Edwin Austin Abbey

Mary, Queen of Scots arrested by the Earl of Bothwell

John Walker, William Walker, After Mather Brown, Harrison and Co., Mary, Queen of Scots