Mr Vernon in the character of Macheath: 'This best friend a brimmer'

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William Archer CollectionTHM/368

Publications and writingsTHM/368/1

Other manuscriptsTHM/368/2

Material relating to theatrical productions and translationsTHM/368/3

CorrespondenceTHM/368/4

Images, photographs and plansTHM/368/5

Set of 18th-Century actor portrait printsTHM/368/5/1

Mr Vernon in the character of Macheath: 'This best friend a brimmer'THM/368/5/1/1

Mr Mossop in the Character of Langa: 'Thus perish all that gives Alonzo pain!', Act III, scene 1THM/368/5/1/2

Mr Foote in the Character of Mrs Cole: 'Where do you expect to go when you die Mr Loader?'THM/368/5/1/3

Mr Garrick in the Character of King Richard: 'A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!', Act V. Sc. Ult.THM/368/5/1/4

Mrs Yates in the Character of Jane Shore: 'This is the Door of my Alicia', Act V, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/5

Mr Barry in the Character of Othello: 'This only is the Witchcraft I have us'd.', Act I, Scene 3THM/368/5/1/6

Miss Pope in the Character of Abigail: 'Adieu sweet Mr Vellum.', Act IV, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/7

Mr King in the Character of Touchstone: 'Right, many a Man has good horns.', Act III, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/8

Miss Younge in the Character of Merope: 'And I will kneel a wretch and thank your justice.', Act IV, Scene 1THM/368/5/1/9

Mr Garrick in the Character of Bayes: 'There's a cold flight for you now!', Act IV, Sc. 2THM/368/5/1/10

Mrs Yates in the Character of Calista: 'It is but thus, and both are satisfy'd.', Act V, Sc. 1THM/368/5/1/11

Miss Catley in the Character of Euphrosyne: 'Love the greatest bliss below, How to taste few women know.', Act IIITHM/368/5/1/12

Mr Reddish in the Character of Posthumus: 'But Imogen is your own, do your best Wills, And make me blest to obey.', Act V, Scene2THM/368/5/1/13

Mr Brereton in the Character of Bainwell: 'Oh 'tis impossible!', Act III, Sc. IVTHM/368/5/1/14

Mrs Lessingham in the Character of Oriana: 'And you, Sir, shall have hartshorn in abundance.', Act II, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/15

Mrs Barry in the Character of Sir Harry Wildair: 'Here is a nest of the prettiest goldfinches that ever chirp'd in a cage.', Act II, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/16

Mr Lewis in the Character of Hippolitus: 'But oh, ye Pow'rs! I feel his godlike form., Act III, Sc.ult.THM/368/5/1/17

Mr Dunstal in the Character of Dominic: 'Gomez, cherish your virtuous wife; & thereupon I give you my benediction.'THM/368/5/1/18

Mrs Yates in the Character of Zaphira: 'No tyrant's threat can awe the free-born soul, That greatly dares to die.', Act II, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/19

Mr Macklin in the Character of Squire Badger: 'Huzza! Hark! Hark! Agad, he has routed the Couch & Horses bravely.', Scene 14THM/368/5/1/20

Mrs Yates in the Character of Almeria: 'Did ever father curse his kneeling child!', Acy IV, Scene 7THM/368/5/1/21

Mr Foote in the Character of Lecturer: 'Mine, propriety with elegance.'THM/368/5/1/22

Mr Lewis in the Character of Castalio: 'Monimia! Monimia! She's gone!', Act II, Scene 1THM/368/5/1/23

Mr Baddeley in the Character of Trincalo: 'If thou Be'est Stephano -'THM/368/5/1/24

Mrs Jackson in the Character of Juliet: 'Romeo I come! This do I drink to thee.', Act IV, Scene 3THM/368/5/1/25

Mrs Mattocks as Hermione: But I have that honourable grief lodg'd here, which burns worse than tears drown.', Act 2d. Scene 1st.THM/368/5/1/26

Mrs Mattocks as Achilles: 'Was Hector here, the fate of Troy should this instant be decided.', Act 3d.THM/368/5/1/27

Mr Barry in the Character of Varanes: 'Damn'd be all Courts, and trebly damn'd Ambition.', Act 3d. Scene 2d.THM/368/5/1/28

Mr Garrick in the Character of Edward: 'Oh for an arm of iron, but to answer the mighty ardour that inflames my soul!.', Act 5thTHM/368/5/1/29

Mrs Lessingham in the Character of Flora: '-and are like to live, fretting one another like silk & worsted wove together, till we quite wear out.', Act 1stTHM/368/5/1/30

Mrs Abington in the Character of Corinna: 'O Lord, a letter! is there ever a token in it?', Act 2d. Scene 1stTHM/368/5/1/31

Mrs Barry in the Character of Wildair: 'They are the prettiest Castagna in the world.', Act 2d. Scene 1stTHM/368/5/1/32

Mrs Giffard in the Character of Queen: 'Let Majesty take root within thy heart.', Act 2d. Scene 2d.THM/368/5/1/33

Miss Hopkins in the Character of Arethusa: 'Where am I now? Feet find me out a way.', Act 4th Scene 2d.THM/368/5/1/34

Mr Henderson in the Character of Don John: 'Was ever man so paid for being curious?', Act 1st, Acene 3d.THM/368/5/1/35

Mrs Barry in the Character of Horatia: 'The heart which doats like mine, must break to be at ease.', Act 4th, Scene the last.THM/368/5/1/36

Mr Sheridan in the Character of Corialanus: '_and we here deliver, Subscrib'd by the Consuls and Patricians together with the seat of the Senate, what we have compounded on.', Act 5thTHM/368/5/1/37

Mrs Yates in the Character of Agnes: 'O! no! he lives he struggles yet.', Act III, Scene 3THM/368/5/1/38

Master Edwin in the Character of Tom Thumb: 'I ask not Kingdoms, I can conquer those.', Act I, Scene 3THM/368/5/1/39

Mr Bensley in the Character of Mark Antony: 'Look! in this place ran Cassius' dagger through.', Act IIITHM/368/5/1/40

Mr Smith in the Character of the Duke of Norfolk: 'Here is a Letter from that guilty Fair-one; She bid me thus present it on my knees.', Act I, Scene 2THM/368/5/1/41

Mr Reddish in the Character of Alfred: Music! Shield me Heaven! Whence should it come.', Act I, Scene 4THM/368/5/1/42

Print of Miss O'Neil in JulietTHM/368/5/2

Print of Mr C Kemble as Charles Surface in the School for Scandal, by Richard DightonTHM/368/5/3

Print of Othello, from Vanity FairTHM/368/5/4

Print of Oscar Wilde from Vanity FairTHM/368/5/5

Print of Richard Brinsley SheridanTHM/368/5/6

Print of El Dukkehjem (Act II) in CopenhagenTHM/368/5/7

Theatrical PhotographsTHM/368/5/8

Proof pages from The Tribune featuring The Fortune TheatreTHM/368/5/9

Playbills and programmesTHM/368/6

EphemeraTHM/368/7

Material relating to a proposed National Theatre and endowed theatres abroadTHM/368/8

Material relating to censorshipTHM/368/9

Material ancillary to the William Archer collectionTHM/368/10