Romeo and Juliet: Bryn Mawr College, 1908. Tomb Scene

Romeo and Juliet: Bryn Mawr College, 1908. Pleasaunce Baker (Juliet), Mary Nearing (Romeo): Tomb Scene. This production marks a total polarity with the previous ones. A women's college follows in the tradition of the Cushman sisters with a female Romeo.Katharine Hepburn was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and first acted there. Notice the minimalism of the set, essentially limited to curtains, as in early traveling company stagings in the Renaissance. Photographer: H. Parker Rolfe, Philadelphia.Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.