Richard III: Irving as Richard III, London, Lyceum Theatre, 1877.

"The performance throughout was marked by a vast intellectual power, and the most minute and careful grasp of detail. It can with perfect truth be said that Mr. Irving did not slur a single line of the part, and there was hardly a passage that he did not make luminous with unthought-of suggestions. By a pause, a gesture, or a sudden change of tone, he kept alive the play of thought in a manner simply inimitable. To this wealth of meaning detail he added a harmony and force by the vigour and consistency with which he bodied forth the main features of the character. Appearing at first as the resolute, shameless villain, with a conscience completely under control, determined to wade through seas of innocent blood to the crown, he pursued his course with a daring and impatient effrontery, in striking keeping with his conception." Dundee Courier, Oct.26, 1877: 19C. British Library Newspapers. See later galleries for many other actors as Richard III.