Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in "The Lady of Lyons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1878), Portia (1879), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama "Charles I" (1879), Desdemona in "Othello" (1881), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy "The Cup" (1881), Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing", another of her signature roles (1882 and often thereafter), Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" (1882), Jeanette in "The Lyons Mail" (1883), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy "Nance Oldfield" (1883), Viola in "Twelfth Night" (1884), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of "Faust" by Wills (1885), the title role in "Olivia" (1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre), Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth" (1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan), Queen Katherine in "Henry VIII" (1892), Cordelia in "King Lear" (1892), Rosamund de Clifford in "Becket" by Alfred Tennyson (1893), Guinevere in "King Arthur" by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan (1895), Imogen in "Cymbeline" (1896), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play "Madame Sans-Gêne" (1897) and Volumnia in "Coriolanus" (1901).