[83] The dates of her most important impersonations since joining Henry Irving: Ophelia in _Hamlet_, 1878; Pauline in _The Lady of Lyons_; Ruth Meadows in _The Fate of Eugene Aram_, Queen Henrietta Maria in _Charles I_, Portia in _The Merchant of Venice_, 1879; Iolanthe in _King René’s Daughter_, Beatrice in _Much Ado about Nothing_, 1880; Camma in _The Cup_, Letitia Hardy in _The Belle’s Stratagem_, Desdemona in _Othello_, 1881; Juliet in _Romeo and Juliet_, Beatrice at the Lyceum (her previous appearance had been at Leeds), 1882; Viola in _Twelfth Night_, 1884; Olivia in _Olivia_ (revival), Margaret in _Faust_, 1885; Ellaline in _The Amber Heart_, 1887; Lady Macbeth, in _Macbeth_, 1888; Catherine Duval in _The Dead Heart_, 1889; Lucy Ashton in _Ravenswood_, 1890; Queen Katherine in _Henry VIII_, Cordelia in _King Lear_, 1892; Rosamund in _Becket_, Nance Oldfield in _Nance Oldfield_, 1893; Queen Guinevere in _King Arthur_, 1895; Imogen in _Cymbeline_, 1896; Madame Sans-Gêne in the play of that name, 1897; Clarisse in _Robespierre_, 1899; Volumnia in _Coriolanus_, 1901; she acted under Irving’s management for the last time in 1902, playing Portia at his final performance at the Lyceum; Mistress Page in _The Merry Wives of Windsor_, 1903; _Alice-Sit-By-The-Fire_, 1905; Lady Cecily Waynflete in _Captain Brassbound’s Conversion_, Hermione in _The Winter’s Tale_, 1906. On April 28, 1906, the fiftieth anniversary of her first appearance, she played Francisca in _Measure for Measure_ (once only) at the Adelphi. [84] Mr. Shaw’s article on Ellen Terry appeared, in German, in the _Neue Freie Presse_ of Vienna. And there are several striking passages concerning her in the _Dramatic Opinions and Essays_. [85] Yet, characteristically, she was better satisfied than some of her admirers: “I have sometimes wondered,” she wrote, “what I should have accomplished without Henry Irving. I might have had ‘bigger’ parts but it doesn’t follow that they would have been better ones, and if they had been written by contemporary dramatists my success would have been less durable. ‘No actor or actress who doesn’t play in the classics--in Shakespeare or old comedy--will be heard of long,’ was one of Henry Irving’s statements, and he was right.” [86] Ellen Terry never played _The Man of Destiny_. Irving accepted it and shelved it.