Category Archives: Comedy
The Merry Wives of Windsor Tailpiece
Herne’s Oak (II)
Herne’s Oak
Falstaff and Mistress Quickly
Falstaff, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
Falstaff and Ford
Falstaff and Mistress Ford
Rugby and Caius
Falstaff and Pistol
Mistress Ford and Mistress Page
Falstaff, Pistol and Nym
Anne Page and Slender
Sir Hugh Evans, Shallow and Slender
The Merry Wives of Windsor Headpiece
The Merry Wives of Windsor Full Page Introductory Illustration
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Tailpiece
Valentine, Thurio and Duke
Julia, Host and Proteus
Valentine, Speed and Outlaws
Valentine and Duke
Speed, Launce and Crab
Valentine, Silvia, Thurio and Speed
Valentine and Silvia
Julia and Lucetta
Valentine and Proteus
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Headpiece
The Two Gentlemen of Verona Full Page Introductory Illustration
The Tempest Tailpiece
Prospero and Alonso
On a Bat’s Back
Prospero, Ariel, Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano
Masque
Ariel, Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano
Trinculo and Caliban
Antonio and Gonzalo
Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
Prospero, Miranda and Caliban
Prospero and Miranda
Tempest
The Tempest Act I Headpiece
The Tempest Full Page Introductory Illustration
Pyramid and Sphynx
Prow of Roman Gallery – From a Baso Relievo, forming a portion of a frieze found at Palestrina.
Promontory of Actium
‘Where the bee sucks’
‘Thy Groans did make wolves howl’
Naples from the sea
Ariel
Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess
‘A Frippery.’ From a Print dated 1587
The Masque
A Harpy. From a Sculpture at Thebs. ‘Disc. de l’Egypte’
A Tyrolese peasant with a goitre.
A ‘forth-right’ Maze. Projected from a ground plan in ‘The Country Housewife’s Garden,’ 1617
Picture of ‘Nobody.’ From the title to an old anonymous comedy, called ‘Nobody and Somebody,’ prior to 1600
Ariel, like a Harpy, ‘vanishes in thunder, and enter Shapes’
Ferdinand and Miranda before the cell of Prospero
Painted Fish. From a Print of the time of Chas. I.
‘Misery makes a man acquainted with strange bedfellows’
‘Apes that moe and chatter’
Manacles. From Specimens in the Tower of London
Ariel as a sea-nymph
Prospero and Miranda
Prospero and Miranda
Border
Bermuda
‘On a bat’s back’
The Tempest Full Page Introductory Illustration
Julio Romano. From a Portrait engraved by Bartolozzi
Little Conduit in Cheapside. From a Print by De la Serre, 1638
Scene III – ‘O, thus she stood / Even with such life of majesty’
Dance of Satyrs. From an Illlumination in Froissart’s Chronicles, Harl. MSS
Prosperine. From a Roman bas-relief
Ape-bearer
Trol-my-dames. Costume, temp. Eliz. From specimen
Scene III – ‘Come, buy of me, come’
Time, as Chorus, dispersing the clouds which conceal Perdita and Florizel
Scene III – ‘I am gone for ever’
Scene III – ‘What have we here?’
Tripod
Scene I – ‘Behind the tuft of pines I met them’
Virginal. Costume, temp. Eliz. From a specimen
Emblems of Jealousy
Scene II – ‘We were as twinn’d lambs’
Border
Pedlar
Act V. Scene III – ‘Now in age / Is she become the suitor?
Introductory Notice – Act IV. Scene III ‘I bless the time / When my good falcon made her flight across / Thy father’s ground’
The Winter’s Tale Full Page Introductory Illustration
‘Look, the unfolding star calls up the shepherd’
Near City Gate
Scene V – Fields without the Town
Scene III – Interior of Prison
Death and the Fool
‘The moated grange’
Scene II – Street before Prison
China Dishes
Scene II – ‘Thy sharp and sulphurous bolt’
Scene I – ‘How now, sir?’
‘An o’ergrown lion in a cave’
Scene V – Interior of Nunnery
Scene III – Street in Vienna
Border
‘Like unscour’d armour hung by the wall’
Measure for Measure Full Page Introductory Illustration
Implements of Hunting
Scene IV – ‘I’ll stay to know at your abandon’d cave.’
Scene IV – ‘Here comes a pair of very strange beasts.’
Serpent-charmers of India
The Hellespont
Scene III – ‘Be of good cheer, youth.’
Scene III – ‘Lay sleeping on his back.’
Falcon with bells
Suffolk Ox-yoke
Ancient ‘Painted Cloth’ – From Gough’s Sepulchural Monuments
Scene V – ‘Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me.’
Scene II – ‘Tongues I’ll hang on every tree.’
A Jetton, or Counter
Shepherd’s Dial
Scene VI – ‘Dear master, I can go no further.’
Melancholy Jaques
Scene I – ‘A poor sequester’d stag.’
Scene III – ‘To liberty, and not to banishment.’
Scene I – ‘Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?’
Border – The Seven Ages
Cross at West-Cheap
Forest of Arden
As You Like It Full Page Introductory Illustration
Tarleton, with the Tabor – From Harl. MS. 3885
Middle Temple Hall
Scene I – Spalatro – ‘My lord, I do protest.’
Scene III – ‘Into the chantry,’
Scene I – Spalatro – ‘Hold, Toby, on thy life.’
Chests of the time of Elizabeth
‘The new Map, with the augmentation of the Indies.’ From ‘Linschoten’s Voyages,’ 1598
The Bed at Ware – From a Print by Shaw
Scene III – ‘Once, in a sea-fight, ‘gainst the count his galleys.’
Scene I – Olivia’s Garden
Tray-trip – From a Drawing in Harleian MSS
One of the Magi (cross-gartered) – From an Illumination in the Benedictional of St. Ethelwald, in the Duke of Devonshire’s Collection
Lucrece – From an antique gem
Ancient Watch, time of James I
Stone-bow – From a Specimen engraved in Meyrick
Scene IV
Scene I – Sea-coast near Spalatro
Sheriffs’ Posts – From Archaeologia,’ vol. xxix
Portrait of Moll Cut-Purse – From Middleton’s ‘Roaring Girl’
Viol-de-Gamboys – From Harl. MS. 4375
