Dramatist Collection

W B Yeats / Nobel
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist

Samuel Beckett
SAMUEL BARCLAY BECKETT Irish dramatist and novelist Date: 1906 - 1989

Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court, London
Londons great attraction: what to see in Shakespeares England. How to find and identify the chief reconstructions of old Tudor buildings at Earls Court. Date: 1912

Lessing / Gotthold / Miniatu
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING German dramatist and critic

Scene from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo: Javert, the detective (engraving)
5996966 Scene from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo: Javert, the detective (engraving) by Brion, Gustave (1824-77) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Scene from Les Miserables)

Shakespeare quotation on a greetings card (inside pages) -- Heaven give you many, many merry days (The Merry Wives of Windsor). With a colourful spray of flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
Leo Tolstoy (Count Lyev Nikolayevich Tolstoy), Russian novelist, essayist, dramatist and educational reformer

WILLIAM GILLETTE American actor and dramatist, in the role of Sherlock Holmes Date: 1855 - 1937

Arnold Bennett
ENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT English novelist, dramatist and critic Date: 1867 - 1931

Henrik Ibsen / Home / Oslo
HENRIK IBSEN Norwegian dramatist in his study at his home in Oslo

William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English dramatist and poet

William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III, Scene 1 (litho)
8648409 William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act III, Scene 1 (litho) by Sullivan, Edmund Joseph (1869-1933) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Tragedy of Hamlet)

Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1914. Creator: Arnold Genthe
Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1914

Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, c1600, (1942). Creator: Paulus van Somer
Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, c1600, (1942). Portrait of author, playwright and poet Mary Sidney Herbert (1561-1621)

Holger Drachmann, Villa Pax, Skagen, Denmark
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (1846-1908), Danish poet and dramatist, seen here at his home, Villa Pax, Vesterby, Skagen, Denmark, with his third wife Soffi. Date: circa 1907

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC a AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca
illustration of a Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC a AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist

JULES ROMAINS (1885-1972). French novelist, dramatist and poet. Photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936

George Chapman / Anon Copp
GEORGE CHAPMAN English poet and dramatist, known especially for his verse translations of Homer Date: 1559 - 1634

William Shakespeare on a Christmas card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare with a quotation on a Christmas card (front and back covers) -- Heaven bless you and prosper your affairs (Henry IV, Part 2)

William Shakespeare on a greetings card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare on a greetings card (front cover). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906). Norwegian dramatist. Poster for the theatre performance of The Lady from the Sea (Die Frau vom Meer)

A portrait of George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel prize winner. Date: 1946

Seated Voltaire (image 4 of 6), between c.1779 and c.1795. Creator: Jean-Antoine Houdon
Seated Voltaire (image 4 of 6), between c.1779 and c.1795

Jean Valjean is received and cared for by Bishop Myriel, 19th Century (b / w engraving)
909612 Jean Valjean is received and cared for by Bishop Myriel, 19th Century (b/w engraving) by Lix, Frederic Theodore (1830-97); Private Collection; (add.info.: Published in Cent dessins)

Adolphe d Ennery, French dramatist and novelist (litho)
2818995 Adolphe d Ennery, French dramatist and novelist (litho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Adolphe d Ennery, French dramatist and novelist. Adolphe d Ennery)

Fanny Burney, c1784-1785, (1943). Creator: Unknown
Fanny Burney, c1784-1785, (1943). Portrait of Frances Burney (1752-1840), English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright, and daughter of the musicologist Dr Charles Burney

Menander (ca. 342-ca. 292 BC). Portrait
Menander (ca.342-ca.292 BC). Greek dramatist, representative of the athenian New Comedy. Roman copy of a Greek original. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Caricature of Harry Paulton, actor and dramatist
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917), actor and dramatist. Seen here outside the Avenue Theatre, London, in cloak and hat -- Manteaux Noirs; or, a Tale of the Embankment

Caricature of the actor and dramatist Harry Paulton
Caricature of the comic actor and dramatist Harry Paulton in the role of The Abbe. circa 1880s

Utrillo and Guitry
MAURICE UTRILLO French painter, best known for his Parisian street scenes, with the actor and dramatist SACHA GUITRY (1885-1957), in Montmartre, Paris, 1955

Henrik Ibsen / Oslo / 1898
HENRIK IBSEN Norwegian dramatist out riding with his brother in Oslo in 1898, showing the National Theatre (left) and Ibsens own statue (right)

Dalys Theatre / Broadway
Augustin Daly, American theatrical manager & dramatist, opened his first theatre on Broadway in 1869. This picture shows a full house enjoying a performance

Walter Landor
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR - British poet, dramatist and prose writer

W B Yeats / The Tatler
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist in his study at Woburn Buildings, London

William Shakespeare (engraving)
7239653 William Shakespeare (engraving) by Cook, J.W. (19th Century); Private Collection; (add.info.: William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. English poet, playwright, dramatist and actor)

Scene from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo: Thenardiers escape (engraving)
5996958 Scene from Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo: Thenardiers escape (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Scene from Les Miserables)

Illustration from Les Miserables, 19th Century (b / w engraving)
909614 Illustration from Les Miserables, 19th Century (b/w engraving) by Lix, Frederic Theodore (1830-97); Private Collection; (add.info)

Brain Salad, caricature of Victor Hugo (1802-85) from the front cover of
CHT172465 Brain Salad, caricature of Victor Hugo (1802-85) from the front cover of Le Grelot, June 1871 (colour litho) by Bertall, Charles Albert d Arnoux (1820-82); Musee de la Ville de Paris

Ira Aldridge as Othello, c. 1830. Creator: Henry Perronet Briggs
Ira Aldridge as Othello, c. 1830

Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, late 19th century. Artist: W H Grove
Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, late 19th century. Born in Camberwell, London, Browning (1812-1889) published his first poem Pauline in 1833

Jules Verne, c1878, (1912). Artist: Gaspard-Felix Tournachon
Jules Verne, c1878, (1912). Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) a French novelist, poet, and playwright known for adventure novels. Verne has a profound influence on the early genre of science fiction

Laurent Bordelon
LAURENT BORDELON French churchman and dramatist. Date: 1653 - 1730

Seneca, Roman statesman
Seneca statue. Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist. He was born in Cordoba between 4 and 1BC, and died in 65 AD

Caricature of the English dramatist James Albery -- Defiance. circa 1870s

Johann von Schiller, German poet
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759- 1805), German poet and playwright. While Schiller studied medicine he read Rousseau and Goethe

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Photographic portrait of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), the Irish dramatist, critic and Nobel Prize winner, pictured in 1908

John Burgoyne / Chapman
JOHN BURGOYNE Dramatist and army officer (he surrendered at Saratoga in 1777)

Luigi Pirandello Nobel
LUIGI PIRANDELLO Italian novelist, dramatist and lecturer, awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1934

Hannah Cowley / Belle Asse
HANNAH COWLEY Comic dramatist

W B Yeats / Shackleton
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Irish poet and dramatist

Bjornstjerne Bjornson / Ph
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON Norwegian poet, dramatist, novelist and political and social leader photographed with Grieg in 1903

Shakespeare, 1890 (etching)
8915050 Shakespeare, 1890 (etching) by Flameng, Leopold (1831-1911); Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria; (add.info.: Shakespeare)

Vittorio Alfieri, 1930 (etching)
8915514 Vittorio Alfieri, 1930 (etching) by Comerio, Agostino (1784-1834); Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria; (add.info.: Vittorio Alfieri)

Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) (engraving)
937954 Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) (engraving); Private Collection

Oscar Wilde in America in 1882 (print)
3701783 Oscar Wilde in America in 1882 (print) by Sarony, Napoleon (1821-96) (after); (add.info.: After a work by American photographer Napoleon Sarony)

Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, 1904. Creator: John Singer Sargent
Portrait of Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland, 1904

Miss Clare Kummer at piano, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Miss Clare Kummer at piano, 1910

Sir Arthur Pinero, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Sir Arthur Pinero, 1910

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wilder, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Wilder, 1910

Alexandre Dumas Fils, 1873. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Alexandre Dumas Fils, 1873

Study For The "Monument To Balzac", 1898. Creator: Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguiere
Study For The "Monument To Balzac", 1898. This sculpture is a clay study for a marble monument to Honore de Balzac, one of the most celebrated French authors of the nineteenth century

Honoré De Balzac, 1877. Creator: Pierre Eugene Emile Hebert
Honore De Balzac, 1877. The relief on the base refers to a chapter in Balzac's treatise The Physiology of Marriage (1829), which discusses the benefits of married couples sleeping in separate beds

Maurice Maeterlinck, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Maurice Maeterlinck, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Belgian poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)

John Drinkwater, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
John Drinkwater, between c1915 and c1920

Cast of Shakspeare's face, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Cast of Shakspeare's face, 1864. Death mask of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The cast from the face of Shakspeare

The Seal of the National Shakspeare Committee, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Seal of the National Shakspeare Committee, 1864. Commemoration of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth. We have engraved the design of the official seal of the National Shakspeare

The Shakspeare Commemoration in London: monument of Shakspeare at the Crystal Palace, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Shakspeare Commemoration in London: monument of Shakspeare at the Crystal Palace, 1864. Event celebrating the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth

Portraits of Shakspeare, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Portraits of Shakspeare, 1864....according to the best authorities, there is not even a portrait for which it can be asserted that he sat...The centre...[portrait] is the most authenticated

Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 4 (engraving)
8631811 Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 4 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 4)

Gil Vicente at the court of King Manuel I of Portugal (colour litho)
8672915 Gil Vicente at the court of King Manuel I of Portugal (colour litho) by Gameiro, Alfredo Roque (1864-1935); Private Collection; (add.info)

Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Italian poet and playwright (engraving)
8626290 Giovanni Battista Niccolini, Italian poet and playwright (engraving) by Ussi, Stefano (1822-1901); Private Collection; (add.info.: Giovanni Battista Niccolini (1782-1861)

Illustration of the play Le Monsier de Pourceaugnac by Moliere, 1669 (engraving)
AIS5350468 Illustration of the play Le Monsier de Pourceaugnac by Moliere, 1669 (engraving); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add.info.: Madame Bellecour in the role of Nerine)

Book frontispiece with fine color portrait of William Shakespeare by artist Alberto Sangorski, 1986 (photo)
8716685 Book frontispiece with fine color portrait of William Shakespeare by artist Alberto Sangorski, 1986 (photo) by Sangorski

Aeschylus, 1784 (engraving)
7272477 Aeschylus, 1784 (engraving); (add.info.: AESCHYLUS (525-456 a.C.) Greek tragic poet of Eleusi, aristocratic origin. He distinguished himself against the Persians to Marathon and Salamina

Nathan Field
5305080 Nathan Field.; (add.info.: Portrait of Nathan Field (1587-1620) an English dramatist and actor. Dated 17th Century.); Universal History Archive/UIG

Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving)
FGL5494021 Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Battle scene, Illustration for "Le Cid" 1802 (engraving)
FGL5493995 Battle scene, Illustration for "Le Cid" 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Battle scene, Illustration for "Le Cid"1802 (engraving)
FGL5493971 Battle scene, Illustration for "Le Cid"1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving)
FGL5493936 Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Desdemona, Principal female character from Shakespeare's play Othello
6116608 Desdemona, Principal female character from Shakespeare's play Othello, ; (add.info.: Desdemona. Principal female character from Shakespeare's play Othello)

Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving)
FGL5493989 Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving)
FGL5493974 Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

Wedding of Rodrigo (Rodrigue) Diaz count of Bivar (El Cid) and Chimene, Illustration for "Le Cid" 1802
FGL5493955 Wedding of Rodrigo (Rodrigue) Diaz count of Bivar (El Cid) and Chimene, Illustration for "Le Cid" 1802 (engraving); (add.info)

Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving)
FGL5493950 Illustration for "Le Cid", 1802 (engraving); (add.info.: Illustration of "The Cid" poem by Guillen de Castro (1569-1631) (1618)

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"Dramatist: Masters of the Theatrical Craft" From the lyrical verses penned by W. B. Yeats, a Nobel laureate in Literature, to the captivating performances of William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, dramatists have left an indelible mark on our cultural landscape. Step into the enchanting world of Shakespeare at the grand exhibition held at Earls Court in London, where his timeless works come alive through intricate costumes and elaborate sets. Witness a scene from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, beautifully captured in an engraving depicting Javert, the relentless detective. Arnold Bennett's ingenious storytelling transports us to different realms with every word written while a Shakespeare quotation on a greetings card reminds us of his enduring influence on literature and life itself. Samuel Beckett challenges conventional narratives with his thought-provoking plays that delve deep into existential questions. Meanwhile, Henrik Ibsen takes us back home to Oslo where he masterfully explores societal norms and personal struggles. Leo Tolstoy's Russian novels transport readers across vast landscapes filled with complex characters and profound insights into human nature. And who can forget William Shakespeare himself? His words continue to resonate through time, reminding us of love, tragedy, and everything in between. Jules Verne's visionary tales ignite our imagination as we embark on thrilling adventures alongside extraordinary characters. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke's contributions to literature during her time are celebrated for their elegance and sophistication. Dramatists embody creativity unleashed upon stages big and small; they captivate hearts with their stories woven intricately through dialogue and action. Their artistry transcends boundaries - geographical or temporal - leaving an everlasting impact on generations past, present, and future.