This chapter shows how spectatorship involves the arts in mirroring both the society in which they exist and one another; and examines how study of the relationships between the arts can enrich classroom teaching. On Friday, 16th February 1728, Henry Fielding saw the premiere of his first play, Love in Several Masques, performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera was significant in the artistic development of both William Hogarth and Henry Fielding. In Tom Thumb, Fielding gives post-Restoration tragedy a hero–muse commensurate with its stature. Fielding was becoming the country’s most successful playwright, Hogarth was achieving similar status in the visual arts. The chapter highlights fresh aspect of spectatorship: looking at the acting out of a dramatic sequence of events as a communal, as well as an individual, activity. The reader is placed in a spectator role, as a member of an audience watching a scene is watching Fielding’s dramatic skills deployed so overtly and self-consciously.