akespeare, and by 1865, there were largenumbers of editions in print, a number of which were illustrated,
though often with "imported" designs and/or engravings.
As might be expected, foremost among the visual images were portraits
of a string of accomplished Shakespearean actors, some of them
visitors and some of them native born or permanent immigrants. Among
the former were Edmund Kean, Charles Kean, Ellen Tree, John Philip
Kemble, William Charles Macready, Charles and Fanny Kemble, Henry
Irving, Ellen Terry, Jean Mounet-Sully, Adelaide Neilson, Kyrle
Bellew, Charles Albert Fechter, Ernesto Rossi, Tommaso Salvini,
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and Sarah Bernhardt, while native born or
immigrant actors included the likes of James Henry Hackett,
