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Ophelia

Thomas Rowlandson

1770–1827

Anne Page, Slender and Simple (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)

Charles Heath, the elder

1825–40

Hartford Building and Loan Association: Hamlet

Wilbur Macey Stone

1897

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)

Sir John Everett Millais

March 1, 1866

The Spirit of Shakespeare Appearing to his Detractors

Sylvester Harding

1796

William Shakespeare

Illman and Sons

mid-19th century

Mrs. Gwyn & Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Dickinson

1780

Titania (Shakespeare, Le songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream)

Umberto Brunelleschi

1947

William Shakespeare

Jacob Houbraken

1747

George Frederick Cooke in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello")

James Ward

1783

Cardinal Wolsey Entering the Abbey of Leicester (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene 2)

Robert Thew

April 23, 1798

"Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee": plate 4 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

Théodore Chassériau

etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Miss O'Neill as Juliet

James Godby

May 29, 1815

Lucianus–The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, Act 3, Scene 2

Edward Gordon Craig

ca. 1928

Dromio, Adriana and Luciana (Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 2)

Charles Pye Jr.

1827

William Shakespeare

Charles William Sherborn

1876

Shakespeare's Seven Ages

Edward Goodall

1850

The Most Excellent Historie of The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1860

Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: With illustrations, as designed and modelled [sic] by W. Boyton Kirk, Esq., A.R.H.A., for a Dessert Service manufactured by Messrs. Kerr, Binns, and Company, (late Chamberlain & Co.), Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, Dublin, Philadelphia, and New York, for the Dublin Great Exhibition of 1853

William Boyton Kirk

1853

A Scene in Cymbeline (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 4)

James Walker

January 10, 1783

Miss Lizzie Weston as Oberon: "And Maidens call it, love in idleness. Fetch me that flower" (Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2, Scene 2)

Martin & Johnson, New York

1855

Shylock's House–Shylock, Jessica and Launcelot (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 5)

Peter Simon

first published 1795; reissued 1852

Scene from Antony and Cleopatra, at the Princess's Theatre, from "Illustrated London News"

Alfred Hunt

June 8, 1867

Illustrated London Almanack

Samuel John Carter

1871–75

Burking Poor Old Mrs. Constitution, Aged 141

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

April 1829

The Taming of the Shrew

Charles Robert Leslie

1838

The Horticultural Fate–dedicated to the Rainer Family

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

June 30, 1829

Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice

James Gillray

June 20, 1789

Salanio, Salerio and Shylock (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)

John Massey Wright

1825–40

A Lover's Complaint

Frederick Bacon

1825–40

King Lear and Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7)

Francesco Bartolozzi

ca. 1783

Prince Henry, Hotspur and Falstaff (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)

Thomas Ryder I

first published 1796; reissued 1852

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4)

Francesco Bartolozzi

1784

Illustration to Shakespeare's Tempest, Act I, Scene 1

Walter Crane

1893

Mrs. Ford and Mrs Page (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 1)

Robert Thew

1793

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew

first published 1796; reissued 1852

Much Ado About Nothing

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

1828

Scenes from the Winter's Tale

Owen Jones

1866

Design for Stage Scene: King Lear

Edward Gordon Craig

block cut 1908, printed 1923

The Page, Volume 2

Edward Gordon Craig

1899

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