Irving and Terry began with "Hamlet" in 1878. Their 1879 production of "The Merchant of Venice" ran for an unusual 250 nights, and success followed success in the Shakespeare canon as well as in other major plays. Other celebrated productions included "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Lady of Lyons" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1878), "Romeo and Juliet", "King Lear", "The Lyons Mail" by Charles Reade (1883), the immensely popular "Faust" by William Gorman Wills (1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners), "Macbeth" (1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan), "Henry VIII" (1892), "Becket" by Alfred Tennyson (1893), "King Arthur" by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan (1895), "Cymbeline" (1896) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play "Madame Sans-Gêne" (1897).