Shakespeare Collection (#22)

It is the east and Juliet is the sun, 1856-1858. From Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark (right) and the Bear Garden, c1597 (1825)
Globe Theatre, Bankside, Southwark (right) and the Bear Garden c1599 (1825). The Globe Theatre was opened in 1599 and is associated with performances of Shakespeares plays

Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-upon-Avon, 6-8 September 1769 (1795). The event was organised by the great English actor David Garrick (1717-1779)

Beware the Ides of March, 1858. Artist: Sir John Gilbert
Beware the Ides of March, 1858. A soothsayer warning Julius Caesar of the Ides of March - the day on which he was assassinated

Ophelia and Laertes (or Ophelia Here is Rosemary ), 1879. Artist: William Gorman Wills
Ophelia and Laertes (or Ophelia Here is Rosemary ), 1879. Scene depicting the two characters from Shakespeares tragedy Hamlet. From a private collection

George Alexander (1858-1918), English theatrical actor-manager. Alexander as Orlando in Shakespeares As You Like It. Considered an avant-garde performer

Henry Hinchliffe Ainley (1879-1945), English actor, c1912. Ainley in costume as Romeo in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet

John Oldcastle, Lollard leader, hung and burnt hanging for denying transubstantiation, 1417(1848)
John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, Lollard leader, condemned as heretic for denying transubstaniation and hung and burnt hanging in St Giless Fields, London, 1417

Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. Artist: Robert Dudley
Hamlet seeing his fathers ghost on the battlements of Elsinore Castle. From the Shakespeare play, Hamlet, Act l, Sc. IV. Chromolithograph illustration by Robert Dudley (fl.1858-93)

Mary Anderson, American actress, c1895. Artist: W&D Downey
Mary Anderson, American actress, c1895. Mary Anderson (1859-1940) as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. She retired from the stage in 1889

Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress, c1890. Artist: W&D Downey
Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress, c1890. Ada Rehan (1860-1916) in the breeches role of Rosalind in As You Like Itby William Shakespeare. From The Cabinet Portrait Gallery. (London, 1890-1894)

Scene from Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, c1860s. Artist: Ford Madox Brown
Scene from Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet, c1860s. Act 3, scene 5: the lovers on the balcony. Illustration for William Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The play was first performed c1595

Scene from Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet. Act V, scene 3: The Death of Romeo. Illustration for William Shakespeares tragedy Romeo and Juliet

Scene from Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream. Titania Sleeps, from Act II, scene 2

Scene from The Tempest by William Shakespeare, 1856-1858. Caliban, the savage, deformed, sub-human creature enslaved by Prospero, collecting wood (Act II Sc II)

How Shall We Three Meet Again?, 1885. Artist: Joseph Swain
How Shall We Three Meet Again?, 1885. Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Lord Salisbury, and William Gladstone are represented in this cartoon

Launce and his Dog, 1885. Artist: Joseph Swain
Launce and his Dog, 1885. The little dog is Lord Randolph Churchill, the Conservative head of a group known as the Fourth Party

Queen Hermione, 1865 Artist: John Tenniel
Queen Hermione, 1865. Britannia as Paulina unveils the statue and remarks Tis Time! Descend; Be Stone No More! On behalf of the nation Britannia draws back the curtain

The Green-Backed Monster, 1865. Artist: John Tenniel
The Green-Backed Monster, 1865. Iago exclaims O, You are Well Tuned Now! But I ll set Down the Pegs that Make this Music. from Othelllo

Oberon and Titania, 1862. As the Civil War in America continued, President Davis of the Confederation issued a conscription notice to call all men between the ages of 18 and 45 to arms

Poor Buffer, 1878. Artist: Joseph Swain
Poor Buffer, 1878. The Ameer of Afghanistan, holding a tiny shield and raised sword, straddles the buffers of a Russian steam train

The Genu-ine Othello, 1861. In this cartoon, the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeares play

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