Edmund Kean's debut

[caption id="attachment_3200" align="alignright" width="500"] A print of Edmund Kean as Shylock in his 1814 performance of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Author: Henry Hoppner Meyer[/caption]

Edmund Kean debuts at Drury Lane, in the role of Shylock

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