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From Shakespeare to Coward

From The Globe to The Phoenix Theatre
A Guide to Historic Theatrical London and the World Beyond
by Elizabeth Sharland

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List of Illustrations

• The Globe Theatre, Southwark (above)
  
• The Globe interior - re-opened in 1997
  
• The Old Vic Theatre
  
• Shakespeare's statue in Southwark Cathedral
  
• The George Inn, Southwark
  
• Rules Restaurant, Maiden Lane
  
• The Ivy Restaurant
  
• Noel Coward's blue plaque outside his home
  
• The Carrick Club
  
• Noel Coward's wine bar in the Phoenix Theatre
  
• Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Catherine Street
  
• The Opera Tavern Opposite the Theatre Royal
  
• Theatre Museum Covent Garden
  
• Julie Andrew's dress from My Fair Lady in Theatre Museum
  
• The Lyceum Theatre where Sir Henry Irving was actor-manager
  
• Garrick in the foyer of Theatre Royal
  
• The Green Room Club, 9 Adam St, off the Strand - a famous theatrical club with historic paintings and posters, it is a late-night drinking spot for actors after the show
  
• St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, the setting for the first scene of 'My Fair Lady'
  
• Half-price ticket booth in Leicester Square
  
• Edmund Kean in the foyer of the Theatre Royal
  
• St Paul's Churchyard
  
• David Garrick's house, 27 Southampton Street
  
• National Portrait Gallery
  
• Herbert Tree's plaque outside Her Majesty's Theatre
  
• Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan); statue on the Embankment behind the Savoy hotel
  
• Dress Circle Shop, 57 Momnouth Street
  
• The Savoy Hotel
  
• George Bernard Shaw's house, Fitzroy Square
  
• St Paul's Church, known as The Actors' Church - some plaques
  
• More plaques inside St Paul's
  
• Henry Irving's statue next to the National Portrait Gallery
  
• Ad Lib Restaurant
  
• Charlie Chaplin, Leicester Square
  
• Kettners Restaurant
  
• Bemard Shaw's house was also home to Virginia Woolf - see the plaque
  
• David Drummond's shop in Cecil Court
  
• This sign in Villiers Street marks where the Players Theatre is underneath the arches of Charing Cross Railway
  
• The Grill Room at the Cafe Royal, frequented by Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Bernard Shaw and many celebrated writers, artists and actors.
  
• The Grill Room - a detail
  
• The Playhouse Theatre - George Bernard Shaw's first play was produced here
  
• Samuel French's Theatre Shop, Fitzroy Street
  
• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
  
• Ivor Novello's home in the Aldwych
  
• The Sherlock Holmes Pub
  
• The pub sign with Dr Watson on the reverse side
  
• The Haymarket Theatre
  
• John Gielgud, Emma Thompson and author
  
• Harold Pinter, author, Lady Antonia Frazer
  
• Firefly, Coward's home in Jamaica
  
• Corin and Jemma Redgrave, and Lord Olivier's daughter Tamsin with the author
  
• Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director/designer
  

Photograph of the George Inn courtesy of the George Inn

Extracts from the anthology Love from Shakespeare to Coward first produced at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden with Corin Redgrave and Daniel Thorndike.

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Copyright © 1998 by Elizabeth Sharland. All rights reserved.