Shakespeare Collection

Shakespeare; Titania
Act II, Scene I Titania, Queen of the fairies with her train; "...Fairies, away! We shall chide downright, if I no longer stay Date: 1908

Henry V / Agincourt
Act IV, Scene I Henry V, victorious after the battle of Agincourt; H: " Praised be God, & not our strength for it!"

Globe Performance
A performance is watched by a packed house at the Globe theatre, London

Romeo and Juliet
Romeo & Juliet

Macbeth / Witches / Cauldron
Act IV, Scene I The witches in their cavern, gathered around the boiling cauldron; " in the poisn d entrails throw"

Richard II interrupting a tournament
Richard II stopping a tournament between Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, and Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford -- a scene which comes at the beginning of Shakespeares play

Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court, London
Londons great attraction: what to see in Shakespeares England. How to find and identify the chief reconstructions of old Tudor buildings at Earls Court. Date: 1912

Shakespeares Bees by Pauline Baynes
William Shakespeare, lost in thought, and inspired by a swarm of honey bees as he writes Henry V

Romeo / Juliet / Balcony
Act II, Scene II The famous balcony scene

Christmas card, Shakespearean jesters
Christmas Card - May you be merry and lack nothing (based on a quotation from Shakespeares Henry IV Part 2) - two medieval jesters dancing. circa 1935

Edmund Kean in Richard III, 1822.. Mr. Edmund Kean as Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard the Third, in Shakespeares Richard III at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Shakespeare quotation on a greetings card (inside pages) -- Heaven give you many, many merry days (The Merry Wives of Windsor). With a colourful spray of flowers. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Falstaff in Basket
Falstaff is hidden in a laundry basket

Hamlet and Skull
Hamlet with Yoricks skull

Midsummer Nights Dream
Act II, Scene II Oberon places a spell on Titania: " What thous seest when thou dost wake/Do it for thy true-love take, "

Shakespeare - Alls Well That Ends Well - Bertram: This to my mother. circa 1830

Cymbeline - title page - Iachimo emerges from the trunk as Imogen sleeps. 1862

The Tempest, Ariel
Act I, Scene II Ariel guides the ship to safety Date: 1909

OPHELIA
Ophelia Goes Mad, Hands out Wild Flowers Date: 1906

Theatregoing / Globe / C16Th
The Wooden O : Shakespeares summer theatre. Outside the first of the Globe theatres; the audience arriving at the playhouse

LADY MACBETH & DAGGERS
Macbeth, Act II, Scene ii Lady Macbeth: "give me the daggers..." Date: 1925

Globe Theatre at Shakespeares England
A replica of the Globe Theatre at the Shakespeares England exhibition

Hamlet & Ophelia
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Ophelia

Romeo Juliet Balcony
The balcony scene

Ann Hathaways Garden
Anne Hathaways Cottage and garden. Packed herbaceous borders lead up to the cottage

Midsummer Nights Dream
Act IV, Scene I Bottom & Titania; T: " Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed/While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, "

Shakespeare / Statue
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. A full length statue

Oberon & Titania
Act II, Scene II Oberon squeezes the flower onto Titanias eyelids

Hamlet at the Grave
Hamlet at the grave moralises on the skull of the jester Yorick

William Shakespeare
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English dramatist and poet

Scene from Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, The Merchant of Venice, with Portia and other characters

The Winters Tale
Leontes is astonished by the lifelike nature of the statue of Hermione : Paulina, too, is enraptured

Midsummer Nights Dream
Titania & Bottom

Midsummer Nights Dream
Theatre programme cover for a performance at Her Majestys Theatre on 10th January 1900

Hotspur and his Wife
Act II Scene 3 Hotspur and his wife (Lady Percy)

Ophelia Drowns
Ophelia drowns

Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann as Hamlet
Ballet Dancer Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) as Hamlet - London, New Theatre - Old Vic Production. Date: circa 1942

Home of Judith Quiney (Shakespeares daughter), Stratford
The Home of Judith Quiney (1585-1662) (Shakespeares daughter) in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1903

Jessica by Luke Fildes
A portrait of the Shakespeare character, Jessica from The Merchant of Venice by Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1918), part of a series of Shakespearean heroines painted by great Victorian artists for The

Portrait of William Shakespeare - English Playwright and poet
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) - English playwright and poet. Date: circa 1605

William Shakespeare on a Christmas card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare with a quotation on a Christmas card (front and back covers) -- Heaven bless you and prosper your affairs (Henry IV, Part 2)

William Shakespeare on a greetings card
Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Shakespeare on a greetings card (front cover). (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Theatrical Wig Maker
An old gentleman wig maker at work, Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford-upon- Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

Hamlet Slays Polonius
While talking with his mother, Hamlet detects an intruder hiding behind a curtain : he stabs him, only to find it is his girl-friends father, Polonius

Shakespeare & Scenes
The writer, with scenes from twelve of his plays -including a splendid ghost of Hamlets father !

Shakespeare / By Chandos
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English playwright and poet

Scene from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Act II, Scene ii), in which Puck drops a love potion into the sleeping Titanias eyes

Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, by William Heath Robinson
Scene from the Shakespeare comedy, Twelfth Night, Act II Scene iv, illustration by William Heath Robinson. Showing a banquet at Orsinos house, with the clown Feste singing a sad love song

Saint Crispin
SAINT CRISPIN Patron saint of tanners and shoemakers : his feast-day is also the date of the battle of Agincourt, as Shakespeare reminds us. Date: circa 285

King Duncan I of Scotland (reigned 1034-1040). He is thought to have died in battle, though in Shakespeares play he is murdered in his sleep by Macbeth

Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Shakespeare's King Richard II at His Majesty's Theatre, London Date: 1903

Shakespeare's House, Statford-on-Avon, Worcestershire, Engla
Shakespeare's House, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1904

Rosemary, Pansies, Fennel, Columbines, Rue, Daisy and Violets (Hamlet). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Jane Elizabeth Giraud from The Flowers of Shakespeare

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D. C. USA
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. USA Date: circa 1930s

Cartoon, Henry Irving and F B Chatterton
Cartoon, Henry Irving (1838-1905), legendary actor-manager, and Frederick Balsir Chatterton (1834-1886), theatre manager, with a bust of Shakespeare in the background -- Shakespearian Experimenters

Caricature of Harry Paulton and Johns Clarke, actors
Caricature of Harry Paulton (1842-1917) and Johns Clarke (1833-1899), actors -- The Two Dromios (of Ephesus and Syracuse respectively)

Painting Stage Sets
Painting stage sets on old wooden scaffolding at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1960s

HMS Shakespeare, British destroyer at sea, WW1
HMS Shakespeare, British Thornycroft-type destroyer leader, launched 1917, badly damaged by a mine towards the end of the First World War, decommissioned 1936. Date: 1917-1918

Caricatured Hamlet on a music sheet
A caricatured Hamlet, probably based on Sir Henry Irving, on a music sheet entitled Hamlet Ye Dane, A Ghost Story, with music by J B Lawreen

Sir Ralph Richardson as Timon of Athens
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), British stage and screen actor, drawn by Youngman Carter in the Shakespearean role of Timon of Athens

Items in the Tudor Exhibition, 1890
Engraving showing a number of relics from the sixteenth century exhibited in the Tudor Exhibition of 1890. The items pictured include: Henry VIIIs hat (top right)

Henry Irving - Richelieu
Henry Irving in the role of Cardinal Richelieu in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Date: 1873

Ayli : Orlando, Ros, Cel
Orlando, Rosalind (disguised as Ganymede) and Celia (disguised as Aliena) in the Forest of Arden

Gossip about Fairies 15
Titania, queen of the Fairies, magically enamoured of Bottom, the Weaver, comes to her senses - - a scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream

Henry Iv / Falstaff / Rebuke
Sir John Falstaff receiving a most unexpected rebuke from King Henry V. Act V Scene V

Shakespeare / Coat of Arms
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeares coat of arms

Shakespeare / Poet Corner
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Playwright and poet. The memorial at Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey, London

Shakespeare / Felton / Warrn
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE English playwright and poet. Rectangular portrait with ornaments above

Tempest / Prospero / Caliban
A scene from The Tempest Prospero and Caliban

Edmund Kean / As Brutus
EDMUND KEAN Actor, as Brutus in Julius Caesar

Scene from Shakespeares Twelfth Night
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, Twelfth Night, in which Sir Toby Belch encourages the reluctant duellists, Sir Andrew Aguecheek and the page Cesario (Viola disguised)

Scene from Shakespeares The Tempest
A scene from Shakespeares play, The Tempest, in which Prospero and his daughter Miranda watch the shipwreck -- fortunately, no-one will be harmed

Antony and Cleopatra Act 4 Scene 10

Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-avon, Warwickshire
Memorial Theatre (Swan Theatre) and Theatre Garden, RSC, Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-avon, Warwickshire, England. Devastated by fire in 1926 Date: circa 1920

Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene xv, The death of Antony Date: 1927

Chapel Street Stratford-upon-Avon Landscape scene
Chapel, Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Landscape, scene, England, Shakespeare, Watercolour, painting, W, Quatremain, 12023161

Wild Thyme, Oxlips, Violet, Woodbine, Musk-roses and Eglantine (Midsummer Nights Dream). Handcoioured botanical illustration drawn

Cartoon, Wilson Barrett, preparing to play Hamlet
Wilson Barrett (William Henry Barrett; 1846-1904), actor, theatre manager and playwright -- More Study! Seen here preparing to play Hamlet, to the consernation of Henry Irving

Shakespeare - Henry V - Pistol: Pish for thee, Iceland dog! circa 1830

The Merry Wives of Windsor - title page - Anne Page and Slender, an inept and unsuccessful suitor. 1862

Shakespeare - Henry IV Part I
Act III, Scene ii King Henry & his son, Prince Henry. King: " Thou shalt have charge & sovreign trust herein Date: 1906

Old Vic threatre
The Victoria Theatre, better known as the Old Vic : at this time dedicated to performances of Shakespeare, and of opera in english. Date: circa 1930

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Promotional postcard for The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare; set to music by Adrian Welles Beecham. First produced at the Grand Theatre, Brighton

Twelfth Nights / Speare
Viola and Olivia

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