(1875 – ?) Gordon Bailey made his stage debut in Birmingham in 1894 and his first London appearance in 1899 at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre as Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Over the years he returned to Shakespeare regularly. In 1908 he played first Paris, then Mercutio, and finally Romeo in Romeo & Juliet in Matheson Lang‘s production of the play at the Lyceum Theatre, London. In 1909 he played Lear and in 1913 Mercutio again. He playedRead more