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William Shakespeare
Jacob Houbraken
1747
The Seven Ages, Fifth Age: The Justice (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7)
Peter Simon
first published 1801; reissued 1852
[Death Mask of Shakespeare]
London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company
ca. 1865
Mr. Macklin in the Character of Shylock, in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
John Lodge
1775
Illustration to Shakespeare's Tempest, Act III, Scene 2
Walter Crane
1893
A Lover's Complaint
Frederick Bacon
1825–40
Musician (Shakespeare, Le songe d'une nuit d'été / A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Umberto Brunelleschi
1947
"Villain, thou diest": plate 10 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 1)
Théodore Chassériau
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and 1st Earl of Waterford
James Parker
1793
A Scene in Cymbeline (Shakespeare, Act 3, Scene 4)
James Walker
January 10, 1783
The Murder of Polonius
Eugène Delacroix
1834–43
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
1868
The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare
1922
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare
1805
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
Falstaff in the Buck Basket (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 3)
Peter Simon
first published 1793; reissued 1852
Prince Arthur Giving Welcome to the Archduke of Austria, etc. (Shakespeare, King John, Act 2, Scene 1)
John Ogborne
1791
The Rival Richards, or Sheakspear in Danger
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
May 18, 1814
Jacques and the Wounded Stag (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
David Lucas
1830
The Death of Hamlet
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
A Change in the Head of Affairs
William Heath ('Paul Pry')
January 1828
Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream: With illustrations, as designed and modelled [sic] by W. Boyton Kirk, Esq., A.R.H.A., for a Dessert Service manufactured by Messrs. Kerr, Binns, and Company, (late Chamberlain & Co.), Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester, Dublin, Philadelphia, and New York, for the Dublin Great Exhibition of 1853
William Boyton Kirk
1853
Clarence's Dream (Shakespeare, Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4)
William Blake
1774
Ophelia (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7)
Sir John Everett Millais
March 1, 1866
Duke of York, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
March 15, 1776
Lady Macbeth
Lisa Rhana
1926–7
Mr. Henderson in the Character of Macbeth
John Jones
1787
Amiens, Jaques and the Hind (Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1)
Samuel Middiman
1791
Aaron and Tamora (Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act 2, Scene 3)
Charles Heath, the elder
1825–40
Hero Fainting in Church (Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1)
Peter Simon
first published 1789; reissued 1852
Cassandra, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"
John Hamilton Mortimer
March 15, 1776
Hamlet Reproaches His Mother
Eugène Delacroix
ca. 1834
"She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)
Théodore Chassériau
etched 1844, reprinted 1900
Macbeth Consulting the Witches
Eugène Delacroix
1825
Edmund Kean as Richard III
John Byrne
1815–33
The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 4, containing Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, King John, King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, Part 1
William Shakespeare
1805
Mrs. Abington as Thalia
Francesco Bartolozzi
1783
Songs of Shakespeare
Harriette Charlotte Hoskyns Abrahall
1865
Playscene: Conductor & Orchestra, and Play Murder–The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, Act 3, Scene 2
Edward Gordon Craig
ca. 1928