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

Peter Simon

first published 1792; reissued 1852

Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is"–Shakespeare

T. W. Huffam

1843

Frontispiece, from Othello

Théodore Chassériau

1900

David Garrick as Richard III (Shakespeare, King Richard III, Act 5, Scene 8)

Samuel William Reynolds, the elder

1825

Bardolph, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer

May 20, 1775

Falstaff with Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5)

Henry Fuseli

1790

[Group of 6 Stereograph Views of British Homes]

Unknown

1850s–1910s

Miss Lydia Hone – "Her beauty hangs on the Cheek of Night, like a rich Jewel in an Ethiop's Ear"

John Raphael Smith

November 30, 1771

Playscene: Conductor & Orchestra, and Play Murder–The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, Act 3, Scene 2

Edward Gordon Craig

ca. 1928

Illustration to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III, Scene 1

Walter Crane

1894

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 Death of Mark Antony (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 15)

Thomas Watson

January 1, 1780

Hamlet: Prince of Denmark

John Archibald Austen

[1922]

Caliban, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer

May 20, 1775

Illustration to the Tempest: Caliban, Ferdinand and Ariel

Henry Courtney Selous

1836

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

Edward Gordon Craig

ca. 1928

Ophelia (Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Edward Gordon Craig

1910

King Lear Casting Out His Daughter Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1)

Richard Earlom

first published 1792; reissued 1852

Puck's Nightly Pranks

Ludwig Bund

1871

A Lover's Complaint

Frederick Bacon

1825–40

Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare, Poems, Verse 3, line 13)

Charles Rolls

1825–40

Richard II, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer

May 20, 1775

Hamlet and Horatio before the Gravediggers

Eugène Delacroix

1843

Rome, Titus's Garden–Lucius Pursued by Lavinia (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 1)

Thomas Kirk

first published 1793; reissued 1852

Illustration to Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V, Scene 4

Walter Crane

1894

Scenes from the Winter's Tale

Owen Jones

1866

The Death of Ophelia

Eugène Delacroix

1843

Scroop, Archbishop of York

Edward Harding Jr.

1793

Shakespeare's Seven Ages

Edward Goodall

1850

The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 6, containing King Henry the Sixth, Part 3, King Richard the Third, King Henry the Eighth, Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare

1805

Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4)

Francesco Bartolozzi

1784

Edmund Kean in the Character of Macbeth

George Henry Harlow

1814

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

James Ward

1783

[Group of 11 Early Stereograph Views of Famous British Houses]

Unknown

1850s–1910s

Shylock, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

John Hamilton Mortimer

March 15, 1776

Mrs. Robinson as Perdita

Richard Cosway

ca. 1779

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

Robert Thew

first published 1796; reissued 1852

"He smothers her": plate 13 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

Théodore Chassériau

etched 1844, reprinted 1900

Suffolk and Margaret (Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part I, Act 5, Scene 3)

Charles Heath, the elder

1825–40

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

Walter Crane

1893

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