Catch the Shakespeare Train

  • Find out more about some of the most popular productions of Shakespeare in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries.
  • Trace the productions on maps of key Shakespeare tours to find out where they were staged.
  • Look in detail at the digitized play programmes to see who took part and who helped behind the scenes.
  • Discover more about Transatlantic Shakespeare and Ellen Terry's lectures on Shakespeare's women.

Did you know?

The Lyceum Theatre company had so much scenery and props that it needed a whole train carriage.

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Did you know?

Ellen Terry's first husband was the artist, G. F. Watts, described as 'England's Michelangelo'.

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