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Malvolio (Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Suffolk and Margaret (Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, Act 5, Scene 3)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Shylock, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
March 15, 1776
"If I do die before thee, pr'ythee shroud me in one of those same sheets": plate 8 from Othello (Act 4, Scene 3)
Théodore Chassériau
1844
Ophelia, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
May 20, 1775
Miss O'Neill as Juliet
George Dawe
May 30, 1816
Sir Laurence Olivier and Viven Leigh (Heroes of our Time – 9)
Ronald Searle
January 23, 1957
Illustration to the Tempest: Caliban, Ferdinand and Ariel
Henry Courtney Selous
1836
Cardinal Wolsey Entering the Abbey of Leicester (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 4, Scene 2)
Robert Thew
April 23, 1798
Magazin de Modes (Fashion Boutique)
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
1827–29
Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in the Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
John Raphael Smith
March 1, 1774
Hamlet and Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene I)
William Greatbach
1825–26
Ferdinand and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1)
Peltro William Tomkins
1786
Mrs. Gwyn & Mrs. Bunbury in the Characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Dickinson
1780
The Tempest, Act I: Ferdinand and Miranda
Samuel Middiman
1788
Hamlet and Horatio before the Gravediggers
Eugène Delacroix
1843
"Owake! what ho! Brabantio! thieves! thieves!": plate 1 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 1)
Théodore Chassériau
1844
Clarence's Dream (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)
William Blake
1774
Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)
Robert Thew
first published 1796; reissued 1852
Kemble and Mrs. Siddons in Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)
Thomas Rowlandson
1788–1850
Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare
T. W. Huffam
1843
Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)
Samuel William Reynolds, the elder
1829
William Shakespeare (formerly known as)
Thomas Wright
1827
Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions
Benjamin Smith
1799
Falstaff Mustering His Recruits, from Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Act III, Scene II
Adolf Schrödter
1860
Shakespeare=Kalender für das Jahr 1910
Hans Printz
1910
Mr. Garrick in the Character of Richard III
William Hogarth
June 20, 1746
Before the Duke's Palace–Rosalind, Celia, Orlando, the Duke & Attendants (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1, Scene 2)
William Satchwell Leney
first published 1800; reissued 1852
The Duke of Clarence Asleep in the Tower, as Brackenbury Leaves (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)
Charles Rolls
1825–40
Florizel, Perdita, etc. in the Shepherd's Cot (Shakespeare, Winter's Tale, Act 4, Scene 3)
James Fittler
August 1, 1792
Pyramus (Shakespeare, Le songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Umberto Brunelleschi
1947
Hamlet Reading on a Staircase–The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, Act 2, Scene 2
Edward Gordon Craig
1927–30
Prince Henry, Hotspur and Falstaff (Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)
Thomas Ryder I
first published 1796; reissued 1852
Liston's Dream!
Isaac Robert Cruikshank
July 1825
Falstaff and His Friends, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 84
William Greatbach
May 1868
Caliban, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
May 20, 1775
Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare, Poems, Verse 3, line 13)
Charles Rolls
1825–40
Edmund Kean as Richard III
George Cruikshank
ca. 1814
Judith Shakespeare, Part I
Edwin Austin Abbey
1884
John Henderson, in the Character of Iago (Shakespeare's "Othello")
Francesco Bartolozzi
1786