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Miss Younge, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Love, and Mr. Waldron, in th Characters of Viola, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Sir Toby Belch, and Fabian (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4)
John Raphael Smith
March 1, 1774
Dromio, Adriana and Luciana (Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 2)
Charles Pye Jr.
1827
Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
David Lucas
1830
Set design for Shakespeare's Othello, Act 1
Alexandra Exter
1930
Ophelia: "There's fennel for you, and columbines" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5)
William Wynne Ryland
1787
Edmund Kean as Brutus
Samuel William Reynolds, the elder
1819
William Shakespeare
Charles William Sherborn
1876
Chicago Nominee: "I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest...Where be your gibes now?–Hamlet, Act IV [sic], Scene 1"
Justin H. Howard
1864
Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5)
James Parker
first published 1800; reissued 1852
Rosalind, Celia & Touchstone (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 2)
John Chapman
June 1, 1792
Cassio Bowing
Théodore Chassériau
1852
Mr. Dimond and Miss Wallis in the Characters of Romeo and Juliet
Francesco Bartolozzi
May 1, 1796
Prince Henry and Falstaff at the Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap (Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I, Act 2, Scene 4)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–26
Pandarus and Cressida (Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2)
Henry Corbould
1825–40
Illustration to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V, Scene 4
Walter Crane
1894
Hero, Ursula and Beatrice (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 1)
Peter Simon
first published 1790; reissued 1852
Death of Ophelia
Eugène Delacroix
1843
Card Number 108, Macbeth, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
W. Duke, Sons & Co.
1880s
Angelo's House–Escalus, a Justice, Elbow, Froth, Clown, Officers, etc. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 2, Scene 1)
Thomas Ryder I
April 23, 1798
The Horticultural Fate: Dedicated to the Rainer Family
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
ca. 1827
William Shakespeare (formerly known as)
Thomas Wright
1827
Pantaloon: "The Sixth Age Shifts into the Lean and Slippered Pantaloon" (Shakespeare, As You Like It)
William Bromley
1799
Hamlet and the Ghost of his Father
Adam Vogler
mid-19th century
Anne Page and Slender (Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 1)
Samuel William Reynolds, the elder
1829
Falstaff and Bardolph
James Bromley
1833
Cover Designs for the Elizabethan Edition of Shakespeare's Works, published by Thomas Y. Crowell
Bertram Goodhue
ca. 1904
Falstaff and His Friends, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 84
William Greatbach
May 1868
Miss O'Neill as Juliet
James Godby
May 29, 1815
The Ghost on the Terrace
Eugène Delacroix
1843
As Morning Steals Upon the Night (The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1)
Maxfield Parrish
1909
Dumain, Biron, the King, and Longaville (Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act 4, Scene 3)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Infant Shakespeare Attended by Nature and the Passions
Benjamin Smith
1799
Falstaff at Herne's Oak (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)
Michele Beneditti
May 30, 1793
King Richard and Queen Isabel (Shakespeare, King RIchard II, Act 5, Scene 1)
William Chevalier
1825–40
Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)
James Neagle
June 4, 1794
A Change in the Head of Affairs
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
January 1828
For November 1827: It is the Very Fashion of the Time
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
November 1827
Temperance.–The Man: "Here is that which is too weak to be a sinner–honest Water"–Shakespeare
T. W. Huffam
1843
Mrs. Ford and Mrs Page (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 1)
Robert Thew
1793
The Ghost–The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, Act 1, Scene 1
Edward Gordon Craig
ca. 1928