Clarence's Dream (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)
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When just seventeen, Blake engraved this design by Stothard for William Enfield's "The Speaker, or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers." Kneeling in the foreground, the Duke of Clarence looks over his shoulder at an accusing spirit chillingly described in Shakespeare's Richard III:
Then came wand'ring by, A shadow like an Angel, with bright hair
Dabbled in blood, and he shriek'd aloud:
"Clarence is come, false, fleeting perjur'd Clarence,
That stabb'd me in the field by Tewkesbury,
Seize on him, furies, take him to your torments!"
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