Sarah Siddons as Lady Macbeth: 'Macbeth', Act V, Scene I The Tragedy of Macbeth by Henry Pierce Bone, 1779–1855. Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund. Dr Chris Laoutaris is a ...

In the chapel of St Andrew in the north transept of Westminster Abbey is a larger than life-size (seven feet two inches, with a three foot plinth) white marble statue to Sarah Siddons, reputed to be ...

Stars such as the famous female performer Sarah Siddons, who played the role of Hamlet several times – as well as Juliet, or Lady Macbeth. In 1788 a theatre playbill, now lodged in the British ...