Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: plays, painting and performance

Introduction : Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick

The theatre in the eighteenth century

History painting and the theatre

Portraying actors in performance : the early years

Theatrical portraiture

Expression and gesture in painting and performance

'Punch has no feelings': the paradox of actor and artist

Continental shifts

A tragedy of errors? Boydell's Shakespeare gallery

Plays, painting and performance: Laurence Olivier's Richard III

Appendix : On stage with Laurence Olivier. Roger Braban (1931-2022)