Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, and produced by Henry Irving, with the stage managed by H. J. Loveday, and the scenes designed by Howes Craven, W. Cuthbert, W. Hann & W. Telbin, at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, starring Ellen Terry as Juliet, Mary Anne Stirling, on March 8, 1882

Scenes from Romeo and Juliet written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), and produced by Henry Irving (actor manager, 1838 - 1905), with the stage managed by H. J. Loveday, and the scenes designed by Howes Craven, W. Cuthbert, W. Hann & W. Telbin,  at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, starring Ellen Terry (English Shakespearean actress, 1847 - 1928) as Juliet, Mary Anne Stirling (English actress, 1815 - 1895), on March 8, 1882.

English actress Ellen Terry as Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Miss Ellen Terry as "Juliet"

Ellen Terry as Juliet, 1882

Programme, 8 March 1882, Romeo and Juliet, Wednesday March 8th 1882, Royal Lyceum Theatre

1882 Royal Lyceum Theatre London "Romeo and Juliet" Henry Arthur Jones

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She Stoops to Conquer written by Oliver Goldsmith (1728 -1774), and produced at the Haymarket Theater, London, in 1881.

A scene from She Stoops to Conquer (comedy, first performed in London in 1773) written by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith (1728 -1774), and produced at the Haymarket Theater, London, in 1881.

Actress Lillie Langtry in her theatrical debut as Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer, performed at London's Haymarket Theater in 1881. 

Langtry was eventually to become the mistress of King Edward VII.

Old Antique Print Langtry Haymarket Theatre 1881 Stoops Conquer 

Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and produced first by Elizabethan Stage Society in 1881, starring William Poel, played Hamlet and Maud Holt Ophelia

   Scenes from Hamlet written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616) and produced first by Elizabethan Stage Society at St. George's Hall, London, in 1881, starring William Poel (the moving spirit of the ESS, 1852 - 1934) as Hamlet and Maud Holt as Ophelia

   Poel revived Hamlet, using the text of the first quarto and doing without scenery. From 1881 to 1883 he was manager of Royal Victoria Hall, London, and then for a year manager of F. R. Benson's company. And in 1895 he founded the Elizabethan Stage Society. 

court scene

Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House 1879) written by Henrik Ibsen and produced in Bergen, Norway, with Adeleide Johannessen as Nora, in 1881.

   Scenes from Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House 1879) written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) and produced in Bergen, Norway, with Adeleide Johannessen as Nora, in 1881.

   Within the span of a month this play was performed for the first time in each of the three Scandinavian capitals, the world premiere taking place in Copenhagen on 21 December 1879, followed by the first performances in Stockholm and Christiania on 8 and 20 January 1880.

La mascotte (The Mascot, a three-act opéra comique), performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 28 December 1880, having an initial run of 301 performances.

   A scene from La mascotte (The Mascot, a three-act opéra comique) with music by Edmond Audran and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot, performed  at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 28 December 1880, having an initial run of 301 performances.

   The story concerns a farm girl who is a "mascotte": someone with the mystic power to bring good luck to all around her, so long as she remains a virgin.

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Opéra-comique en 3 actes créé aux Bouffes-Parisiens le 29 décembre 1880.

Scene-image by Olaf Jørgensen of the second act of A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) at Christiania Theater, on January 20, 1880, with (from the left) Nora (Johanne Juell), Helmer (Arnoldus Reimers), Mrs. Linden (Thora Hansson (Neelsen)) og Doctor Rank (Hjalmar Hammer)

Scene-image by Olaf Jørgensen of the second act of A Doll’s House (Et dukkehjem) written by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and produced at the Christiania Theater, on January 20, 1880, with (from the left) Nora (Johanne Juell), Helmer (Arnoldus Reimers), Mrs. Linden (Thora Hansson (Neelsen)) og Doctor Rank (Hjalmar Hammer).

Sir Henry Irving as Hamlet of 1893, written by William Shakespeare

Sir Henry Irving (actor-manager, 1838 -1905) as Hamlet in the 1893 production of Hamlet, written by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564 -1616).

Ellen Terry and Sir Henry Irving as Ophelia and Hamlet