Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

by Michael John Goodman

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  • Charles Knight (ed.)
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
      • As You Like It
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
      • The Comedy of Errors
      • 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
      • King Henry IV Part II
      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
      • King Henry VI Part II
      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • King Lear
      • Hamlet
      • Julius Caesar
      • Macbeth
      • Othello
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • 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
      • King Henry VI Part II
      • 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
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
    • View the Complete Set
  • 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
      • King Henry VI Part II
      • 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
      • Titus Andronicus
      • Troilus and Cressida
    • View the Complete Set
  • H.C. Selous
    • 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
      • King Henry VI Part II
      • 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 Tallis (pub.)
    • Comedies
    • Histories
    • Tragedies
    • Doubtful Plays
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  • John G. Murdoch (pub.)
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  • Songs & Sonnets of Shakespeare
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  • Heroines of Shakspeare
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Category Archives: History

Lavinia

Anne Bullen

Queen Katherine

Lady Anne

Lady Grey

Queen Margaret

Margaret

Joan of Arc

Princess Katherine of France

Lady Percy

Constance

Mr. Ira Aldridge as Aaron

Miss Glyn as Queen Katherine

Mr. Macready as Cardinal Wolsey

Mr. George Bennett as King Henry the Eighth

Henry VIII and Catherine Parr

Cardinal Wolsey Entering the Abbey of Leicester

Garrick as Richard 3rd

Mr. Couldock as Richard III

Mr. J. W. Wallack as Gloster

Mr. C. Kean as Gloster

Miss Ellen Bateman as Richard III and Miss Kate Bateman as Richmond

Madame Celeste as The Princess Katherine

Henry IV Reproving Prince Henry

Mr. Macready as Henry IV

Mr. H. Marston as Hotspur and Mr. F. Robinson as Prince Henry

Mr Hackett as Falstaff

Mr. Creswick as Hotspur

Mr. Macready as Richard II

Mr. G. Bennett as Hubert

Mr Macready as King John and Mr Cooper as Hubert

Miss Glyn as Constance

Mr. Henry Betty as Faulconbridge

Prince Arthur and Hubert

Falstaff and Hal

Imogen at the Cave

Wolsey and Buckingham

Richard at Bosworth Field

Warwick’s Attack on the King’s Tent

Jack Cade and Lord Say

Henry V. and Katherine of France

Henry V. Before Harfleur

King Henry V. and Falstaff

Prince Henry and Poins

Richard II. and the Queen

Austria, Bastard and Constance

Cymbeline Tailpiece

Desdemona and Othello

Horatio Reading

Macbeth and Macduff

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

Macbeth Full Page Introductory Illustration

Julius Caesar Tailpiece

Brutus, Cassius and Lucius

Artemidorus

Romeo and Juliet Headpiece

King Henry VIII Tailpiece

King Henry VIII and Elizabeth

King Henry VIII and Butts

King Henry VIII and Crammer

The Vision

Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell

King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey

King Henry VIII Reads

Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey and Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII and Norfolk

King Henry VIII and Anne Bullen

Sir Henry Guildford

King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine

King Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey

King Henry VIII Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Richard III Tailpiece

The Death of Richard

King Richard and Ratcliff

Buckingham and Sheriff

King Richard, Ratcliff and Salisbury

King Richard and Duchess of York

Queen Margaret, Queen Elizabeth and Duchess of York

King Richard and Buckingham

Buckingham and Lord Mayor

Hastings and Lovel

Richard and Hastings

Buckingham and the Prince of Wales

Queen Elizabeth

King Edward and Stanley

Clarence and Murderers

Clarence and Brackenbury

Rivers with Queen Margaret

Richard and Lady Anne

King Richard III Headpiece

King Richard III Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Henry VI Part III Tailpiece

King Henry and Gloster

The Death of Prince Edward

Warwick

King Edward and Huntsman

King Edward and Clarence

Warwick and King Lewis

King Edward and Lady Grey

Death of Clifford

Bodies

Richard and Clifford

Queen Margaret and York

King Henry VI and Queen Margaret

Richard

King Henry VI Part III Headpiece

King Henry VI Part III Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Henry VI Part II Tailpiece

Warwick

Iden’s Garden

Jack Cade and Lord Say

Jack Cade

Suffolk and Captain

Queen Margaret

King Henry VI and Queen Margaret

Suffolk and Murderers

York

Duchess of Gloster

York, Salisbury and Warwick

Conjouring

Queen Margaret

Gloster

King Henry VI Part II Headpiece

King Henry VI Part II Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Henry VI Part I Tailpiece

Pucelle

Pucelle

Death of Talbot

Talbot in Battle

King Henry VI in Paris

Pucelle

King Henry VI and York

Mortimer

Sentinel

Salisbury

Pucelle

The Death of Henry V

King Henry VI Part I Headpiece

King Henry VI Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Henry V Tailpiece

King Henry V and Katherine

King Henry V and Katherine

Pistol Eats a Leek

King Henry V and Herald

Pistol

King Henry V and Duke of York

King Henry and Williams

King Henry V and Pistol

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Micael John Goodman is a post doctoral researcher at Cardiff University. You can contact him at MJ_Goodman@outlook.com or on Twitter @DrMikeyGoodman To learn more about Michael’s work, go to michaeljohngoodman.org

Gaze Therein...

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 Charles Knight Cleopatra Comedy Coriolanus (Character) Coriolanus (Play) Cressida Cymbeline Desdemona Dramatis Personae Duke of Vienna Exterior 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 Interior Introductory Remarks / Notice Isabella 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) Malvolio Marc Antony Measure For Measure Miranda Mistress Quickly Much Ado About Nothing Olivia Ophelia Orlando Othello (Character) Othello (Play) Pericles Petruchio Photographs Portia 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 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 (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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