Henry Irving
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Sir Henry Irving was an English actor-manager in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. He established himself at the West End theatre the Lyceum. His long campaign to have theatre recognised as an art of
Irving c. 1878
Irving's birthplace, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset
Irving as Hamlet, 1864
As the haunted murderer Mathias in The Bells, 1872
Ellen Terry
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Dame Alice Ellen Terry was an English actress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Henry Irving
…him into the front rank of English actors. After Bateman died in 1875 his widow took over the company, which she handed over to Irving in 1878. With Ellen Terry as his leading lady, over the next twenty-three years Irving made the Lyceum the most important theatre in London. He became particularly associated…
Charles Kean (left) and Ellen Terry in The Winter's Tale, 1856
Choosing: painting by first husband, George Frederic Watts c. 1864
Terry, c. 1880
Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, by John Singer Sargent, 1889