British History > British Theatre British Theatre PlaywrightsHenry Fielding Douglas Jerrold Cicely Hamilton Mark Lemon Watts Phillips George Bernard Shaw Richard Sheridan George Sims William Thackeray Oscar Wilde Actors and ActressesGeorge Alexander Ethel Barrymore Sarah Bernhardt Lewis Casson Harold Chapin Noel Coward Maud Gonne Cicely Hamilton Henry Irving Frances Jarman Fanny Kemble Lily Langtry Ivor Novello Elizabeth Robins Margaret Rutherford Sarah Siddons Thomas Lawless Ternan Ellen Terry Fred Terry Vesta Tilley Henry Beerbohm Tree Irene Vanbrugh