The Eternal City
Thomas's career as a character actor continued to prosper. In 1892, he played in W. S. Gilbert's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern", a parody of "Hamlet", and "Faithful James", by B. C. Stephenson, with Ellaline Terriss, both at the Court Theatre. In 1895, he starred in a revival of "The Rivals" in another dialect role, Sir Lucius O'Trigger. Bernard Shaw wrote that Thomas succeeded in the part, "mainly by not doing what is expected of him". Other parts in which Thomas attracted praise were the Pope in Hall Caine's "The Eternal City" (1902) and John of Gaunt in "Richard II" to the King Richard of Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1903).