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Edmund Kean as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | Portraits of Actorstents in background.
John Palmer as Bajazet and Priscilla H. Kemble as Selima in a scene from "Tamerlane"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene from the play with Bajazet wielding a knife. With text: "Now, now thou Traitress."
John Philip Kemble as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | 1792 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing, in manacles. With text: "Has stript me of the train and pomp of greatness, yet still my soul is free". Act II, Scene 2.
William Charles Macready as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | 1824 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait, wearing a turban.
Edmund Kean as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing turban with beads, robe with ermine trim
Edmund Kean as Bajazet in "Tamerlane"
Image | 1815 | Portraits of Actorsdagger in upraised right hand. With text: "Ye tedious villains, then the work is mine".