I’d recommend:

Lighting the Shakespearean stage, 1567-1642
by R. B. Graves (1999)

Yes, I see - in which case, if it was filmed earlier, my first thought was to wonder if it might possibly be Richard Wordsworth, who I see was in the 1939 Stratford season.

www.theatricalia.co.uk/01smt/smt293...

Here’s a comparison with him in the 1955 film of The Quatermass Xperiment:

Sir Henry’s body was whisked down to London by train, and the sculptor Sir George Frampton was employed to make a death mask.

I’ve traced 9 copies of it - back in 2019 I bought one of them at auction that had belonged to the Irving family.

It hangs on the wall and is looking over me now.

Here he is on the cover of The Sphinx magazine in 1944 (for sale on eBay)

Production photo from a modern revival?

Obvious choice: Sejanus

(William Houston; Will & Peter de Jersey. Dir. Greg Doran 2005 RSC)

You and @andykesson.bsky.social there nine years ago - 8 June 2016

David Lynch’s personal theramin, recently sold at auction for $10,400

The Moorfields section of the 1550s Copperplate Map shows two windmills in that part of Finsbury Fields now called Bunhill [Bone Hill] Fields, just north of what became The Artillery Ground, now the home of London Cricket Club.

I’m guessing it’s actually a satire of his crazed genocidal property developer fantasies that he’s been pranked into posting…

I mean, he dreams of bearded-belly dancers?

Love this!

William Charles Macready (1793-1873) by William Etty (1787-1849), 93x70cm

At auction 11 Feb Lot 101, est. £6-8,000

Dreweatts catalogue says ‘apparently in the role of Hamlet’, but given the toga, I’d guess Coriolanus, which he played in 1838 & invited Etty to see.

Any better guesses?

If you doubt the quotation on this is actually by Shakespeare, bear in mind he’s personally signed it

If you’ve been feeling a bit misty-eyed & nostalgic listening to the new Beatles song ‘Now and Then’, just IMAGINE how Shakespeare fans felt in 1634 when Thomas Cotes followed up his remaster of the folio two years earlier by printing the FIRST EVER release of his final play, The Two Noble Kinsman…