Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

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  • Charles Knight (ed.)
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
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      • The Merchant of Venice
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      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
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      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
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      • Coriolanus
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      • Timon of Athens
      • Troilus and Cressida
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  • Kenny Meadows
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure For Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of The Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony And Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
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      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
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  • John Gilbert
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
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      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
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      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
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  • H.C. Selous
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      • As You Like It
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      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Measure for Measure
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • Much Ado About Nothing
      • Pericles
      • The Taming of the Shrew
      • The Tempest
      • Twelfth Night
      • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
      • The Winter’s Tale
    • Histories
      • King Henry IV Part I
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Timon of Athens
      • Troilus and Cressida
    • Photogravure Plates
    • Special Wood Engraved Illustrations by Various Artists
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  • John Dicks (pub.)
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  • John Tallis (pub.)
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Category Archives: Act Headers

Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Emilia and Iago

Hamlet and Claudius

King Richard III Tailpiece

Queen Margaret

The Palace at Greenwich; returning from the Christening

Street in Westminster – Scene I

Palace at Bridewell

Westminster Hall, water-side

Presence Chamber in York Place, the Masque

View of Salisbury – Scene I

Before the Tower – Scene I

Pomfret Castle – Scene III

Room in the Palace. ‘King Edward led in sick.’ – Scene I

Street in London. ‘Lo! here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword’ – Scene II

Coventry – Scene I

Camp near Warwick – Scene III. ‘This is his tent’

Chace in the North – Scene I

Before York – Scene II

The Parliament House – Scene I

Between Dartford and Blackheath – Scene I

Sea-shore near Dover – Scene I

Parliament in the Abbey at Bury

St Alban’s – Hawking Party

Room of State – Scene I

Room in the King’s Palace – Scene V

View of Bourdeaux – present state

The Parliament House – Scene I

Orleans

Westmister Abbey – Scene I

Troyes

Henry V being armed by his Esquires

Heights between Havre and Harfleur, from an original sketch

Room in the French King’s Palace

Room of State in Palace

Hall in Shallow’s House, showing the domestic architecture of the period

Gualtree Forest

Falstaff choosing his Recruits

Street in London of the architecture of the period – Falstaff and Chief Justice

Entrance Tower of Warkworth Castle

Army before Shrewsbury

Road near Coventry

View of Bangor

Ancient Inn-yard

Hotspur denying his Prisoners

A Street leading to the Tower – Meeting of Richard and his Queen

Exterior of Westminster Hall

Flint Castle – Meeting of Richard II and Bolingbroke

While in Gloucestershire, with View of Berkley Castle

A Room in the Royal Palace, London

Death of John at Swinstead Abbey

The Prison – Hubert and Arthur

The Battle, near Angiers

Angiers

Room of State

Interior of an Egyptian Monument

Ancient Egyptian Palace – From a Sketch made at Medinet Abou, part of the ancient Thebes

Promontory of Actium

Room in Pompey’s House – A Restoration from Pompeii

Room in Cleopatra’s Palace

Plains of Philippi

A Room in Anthony’s House – A Restoration from Pompeii

Street leading to the Capitol

Atrium of a Roman House – It is of that species called by Vitruvius the tetrastyle Atrium

A Restoration from the Remains known as the Temple of Pallas, supposed to be a portion of the Forum of Nerva

Public Place in Rome

Roman Highway on the banks of the Tiber. From Piranesi

Old Walls of Rome

Site of the Roman Forumm. From Piranesi

Site of Rome: Tiburtine Chain in the Distance

Scene IX – Death of Hector

Scene I – Aeneas meeting Paris

Scene I – Helen unarming Hector

Scene II – ‘Enter Cassandra, raving’

Scene III – Before Agamemnon’s Tent

Dunkeld

The Harmuir

Forres

Scone

View from the site of Macbeth’s Castle, Inverness

Dover Castle at the time of Elizabeth

Dover Cliff

Lear in the Storm

Edgar – ‘I heard myself proclaim’d’

Scene IV

Timon’s Cave

Walls of Athens: restored

Athens. The Pnyx

Athens, from the Pnyx

View of Athens

General view of Famagusta. From Le Brun’s ‘Voyage en Orient’

Piazza of the Mosque at Famagusta, with Venetian Remains (the sculpture on the keystone of the central arch represents the Lion of St. Mark).

Venetian Remains at Famagusta – being a Gothic Cathedral, now converted into a Turkish Mosque

The Citadel at Famagusta, Cyprus.

Court of the Ducal Palace, Venice.

Combat of Posthumus and Iachimo

The Cave

Restoration of the Roman Forum

‘Hark! hark! the lark at heaven’s gate sings’

The Garden

Church and Churchyard at Elsinore

A Plain in Denmark

Kronberg Castle

Palace of Rosenberg

Danish Standard and Arms

Platform at Elsinore

Mantua

Friar Laurence’s Cell

Juliet and Nurse

Capulet’s Garden

Verona

Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess

The Masque

‘Apes that moe and chatter’

Prospero and Miranda

Scene III – ‘O, thus she stood / Even with such life of majesty’

Time, as Chorus, dispersing the clouds which conceal Perdita and Florizel

Scene III – ‘What have we here?’

Scene I – ‘Behind the tuft of pines I met them’

Scene II – ‘We were as twinn’d lambs’

Near City Gate

Scene III – Interior of Prison

Scene II – Street before Prison

Scene I – ‘How now, sir?’

Scene III – Street in Vienna

Scene IV – ‘Here comes a pair of very strange beasts.’

Scene II – ‘Tongues I’ll hang on every tree.’

Scene I – ‘A poor sequester’d stag.’

Scene I – ‘Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?’

Scene I – Spalatro – ‘My lord, I do protest.’

Scene I – Spalatro – ‘Hold, Toby, on thy life.’

Scene I – Olivia’s Garden

Scene I – Sea-coast near Spalatro

Spalatro – Scene II. ‘This is Illyria, lady.’

Exterior of Cathedral of Messina

Scene I – Interior of Cathedral at Messina

Scene III – Setting the Watch

Masque in Leonato’s House

Streets in Messina

Marseilles

Florentine Camp and General View of Florence – Scene I

Court of the Duke’s Palace, Florence – Scene I

Interior of Louvre – Scene I

Interior of Palace in Rousillon – Countess and Clown

Avenue to Portia’s House

Court of Ducal Palace

Rialto Bridge

Canal in Venice

St Mark’s Place

Palace of Theseus

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Gaze Therein...

Act Headers Act I Act I Headers Act II Act II Headers Act III Act III Headers Act IV Act IV Headers Actors Act V Act V Headers All's Well That Ends Well A Midsummer Night's Dream Antony and Cleopatra Ariel As You Like It Beatrice Benedick Bertram Bottom Caliban Characters Charles Knight Cleopatra Comedy Coriolanus (Character) Coriolanus (Play) Cressida Cymbeline Desdemona Dogberry Dramatis Personae Duke of Vienna Edition/Illustrator/Editor/Publisher Exterior Female Ferdinand (The Tempest) Full Page Illustrations H.C. Selous Hamlet's Ghost Hamlet (Play) Helena (All's Well That Ends Well) Hermione Heroines of Shakspeare History Iago Imogen Imperial Edition Interior Introductory Remarks / Notice Isabella John Dicks John G. Murdoch John Gilbert John Tallis Julia Juliet Julius Caesar Katharina Kenny Meadows King Claudius King Henry IV Part I King Henry IV Part II King Henry V (Character) King Henry V (Play) King Henry VIII (Character) King Henry VIII (Play) King Henry VI Part I King Henry VI Part II King Henry VI Part III King John (Character) King John (Play) King Lear (Character) King Lear (Play) King Richard II (Character) King Richard II (Play) King Richard III (Character) King Richard III (Play) Lady Macbeth Leontes Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth (Character) Macbeth (Play) Male Malvolio Marc Antony Measure For Measure Miranda Mistress Quickly Much Ado About Nothing Oberon Olivia Ophelia Orlando Othello (Character) Othello (Play) Pericles Petruchio Photographs Portia Preliminary Material/Other Prince Hal Prince Hamlet Prospero Proteus Puck Queen Gertrude Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind Shylock Silvia Sir Andrew Aguecheek Sir John Falstaff Sir Toby Belch Songs & Sonnets of Shakespeare Sycorax The Comedy of Errors The Merchant Of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter's Tale Timon of Athens (Character) Timon of Athens (Play) Titania Title Pages Titus Andronicus (Character) Titus Andronicus (Play) Tragedy Troilus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Valentine Viola

How to Cite the Archive: General references to the archive should employ the following formula: Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [date accessed]. e.g. For a record of key illustrations to Howard Staunton’s Complete Plays of Shakespeare (1865-67), see Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive (VISA) [1 February 2016]. Subsequent references can be truncated to VISA. Referring to Specific Image within the Archive: Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [date accessed]. e.g. See the record for Kenny Meadows’ ‘The Tempest Full Page Introductory Illustration’ (1846), in Michael John Goodman, The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive [1 February 2016].

This Archive is indebted to the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration and The Illustration Archive, directed by Prof. Julia Thomas

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