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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - Characters

Images

  • Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Stipple engraving by W.H. Mote, 1836, after Meadows after W. Shakespeare.
  • Juliet, kneeling between the bodies of Romeo and Paris in the burial crypt of the Capulets, is about to stab herself in the chest with a dagger while a group of torch-carrying soldiers arrives in the background. Etching.
  • Above, puppets representing Falstaff with Mrs Page and Mrs Ford in 'The merry wives of Windsor'; below, a derelict rural thatched cottage in Hungerford. Lithograph after John Orlando Parry.
  • Hamlet pointing to the ghost of his father and asking his mother the Queen if she can see it too; she replies not. Engraving by T. Phillibrown after J.K. Meadows.
  • C.S. Parnell as Macbeth and Dr. Cronin as Banquo's ghost. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1889.

Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Laertes with the mad Ophelia before Gertrude and Claudius. Etching after B. West.

    West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 2840414i
    • Pictures

    William Shakespeare as a boy dreaming of his future characters (Falstaff, King Lear, Macbeth). Engraving by A. Fox after R. Westall.

    Westall, Richard, 1765-1836. | Date: Sept.r 1 1827 | Reference: 16528i
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    Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth night sits by a ruined monastery thinking about her concealed love for Duke Orsino; representing evening. Engraving by I. Taylor jr after R. Smirke.

    Smirke, Robert, 1752-1845. | Date: Dec.r 20 1782 | Reference: 2913422i
    • Pictures

    Laertes with the mad Ophelia before Gertrude and Claudius. Engraving after B. West.

    West, Benjamin, 1738-1820. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 2840413i
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    Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth night. Stipple engraving by W.H. Mote, 1836, after Meadows after W. Shakespeare.

    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. | Date: 1836 | Reference: 673000i

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