Page 5.A. Thomas Betterton as Hamlet at the Queen's Theatre, London in 1706.

Page 5.A. In 3.4.104 the Ghost of Old Hamlet appears to Hamlet in his mother's bedroom while he is admonishing the widowed Gertrude about her marriage to her brother-in-law. The pictures of the two brothers hang on the rear wall of the set. Other props are limited, as on the Elizabethan stage, here to only two chairs. The indoor theatre seemingly is lit by the candles, top right. Betterton and his wife dominated the London theatre of the time, in such roles. The picture is the frontispiece to Nicholas Rowe's edition of Hamlet (1709). HMR