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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

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Original – Scenes and characters from the 1904 benefit performance of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the author, W. S. Gilbert, as Claudius, and a host of other famous playwrights and writers (hence some of the secondary usages).

Reason

And, while we're at it, a stunning chioscuro artwork - I've probably misspelt that - which shows how art was designed for woodblock engraving, as well as being a stunning image for an interesting play. It's a very good parody of Hamlet where Claudius' crime is much less (he wrote a really terrible play), so the plot focuses more on how annoying it is having Hamlet running about soliliquising all the time, and no-one dies.

Articles in which this image appears

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (play), Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Nathaniel Newnham-Davis (journalist).

FP category for this image

WP:FP/THEATRE

Creator

Ralph Cleaver, restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 04:23, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
• Comment This one-off charity performance should not define the play (i.e the article). Interesting of course, but not so much EV. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:52, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

  @Charlesjsharp: Given the show's history - its early history was largely defined by benefit performances, save for a single run, and the first performance was a benefit performance - I think it's not atypical, and it gets the mood and spirit of the show quite well in the middle illustration of the dénouement. It's also not a show with a lot of illustration options. It's possible I could find some of the 1891 benefit or the 1892 short run, but whether they'd be particularly worthwhile is hard to say. Known drawings do not bode well (Though I'm pretty sure that's Hamlet's speech to the players, which is at least a significant moment; mind, the current suggestion is the performance itself that the play centres around.) Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.1% of all FPs} 18:06, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

• Support – Bammesk (talk) 15:52, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
• Support (t · c) buidhe 19:27, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:24, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

• Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:24, 17 October 2022 (UTC)