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The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
1922
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
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
1805
Suffolk and Margaret (Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, Act 5, Scene 3)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Lady Macbeth
Lisa Rhana
1926–7
Falstaff at Herne's Oak (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)
Michele Beneditti
May 30, 1793
Temperance.–The Man: "Here is that which is too weak to be a sinner–honest Water"–Shakespeare
T. W. Huffam
1843
Scenes from the Winter's Tale
Owen Jones
1866
The Strong-Based Promontory (The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1)
Maxfield Parrish
1910–1911
Eight Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest
Walter Crane
1893
"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
Miss O'Neil in Juliet
Charles Turner
December 16, 1814
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol 8, containing Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Pericles, King Lear
William Shakespeare
1805
The Queen Tries to Console Hamlet
Eugène Delacroix
1834
Mr. Garrick in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
James McArdell
November 1, 1754
"Have you pray'd tonight, Dedesmona?": plate 12 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)
Théodore Chassériau
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Clarence's Dream (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)
William Blake
1774
Death of Ophelia
Eugène Delacroix
1843
Bardolph, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
May 20, 1775
Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 6)
Thomas Gaugain
1803
The Beauties of Writing Exemplified in a Variety of Plain and Ornamental Penmanship
Thomas Tomkins
May 19, 1777
A Change in the Head of Affairs
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
January 1828
Ferdinand and Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1)
Peltro William Tomkins
1786
[Group of 11 Early Stereograph Views of Famous British Houses]
Unknown
1850s–1910s
Design for Stage Scene: King Lear
Edward Gordon Craig
block cut 1908, printed 1923
Duke of York, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
March 15, 1776
Mr. Henry E. Johnston in the Character of Hamlet
John Kay
1795
Edmund Kean as Richard III
George Cruikshank
ca. 1814
Rosalind, Oliver and Celia (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 6)
Peltro William Tomkins
1791
Set design for Shakespeare's Othello, Act 1
Alexandra Exter
1930
"Villain, thou diest": plate 10 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 1)
Théodore Chassériau
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Amiens, Jaques and the Hind (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
Samuel Middiman
1791
Titania and Bottom (Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 3, Scene 1)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Beatrice and Benedick (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1)
Charles Gauthier Playter
August 12, 1784
Jane Shore: "Give gentle mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 3, scene 1)
Francesco Bartolozzi
February 1, 1790
Kemble and Mrs. Siddons in Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)
Thomas Rowlandson
1788–1850
"Honest Iago, my Desdemona must I leave to thee": plate 4 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)
Théodore Chassériau
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
[Death Mask of Shakespeare]
ca. 1865
Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–33
William Shakespeare
Martin Droeshout the Younger
19th century