Some scenes from The Mystical Miss performed at the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1899.

 Some scenes from The Mystical Miss performed at the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1899.

Cast from The Mystical Miss at the Comedy Theatre, 1899

JESSIE MACKAYE in The Mystical Miss at the Comedy Theatre, 1899

In January 1900, Mackaye again teamed with Hopper in The Mystical Miss (aka The Charlatan) in London.

Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and produced in July 1899

   A scene from Hamlet written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) and produced at Stratford-upon-Avon?, in 1899, featuring Sir Frank Benson as Hamlet, Matheson Lang as Osric Frances, Dillon as Gertrude.

   On an afternoon in July 1899, Frank Benson took the radical step of introducing a complete First Folio text of Hamlet for Stratford audiences.

  

The following is one of a number of cards with an actor or actress photographed against the ivy-covered wall outside the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Sir Frank played Hamlet at Stratford seventeen times between 1886 and 1916.