Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

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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 Dicks (pub.)
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  • John Tallis (pub.)
    • Comedies
    • Histories
    • Tragedies
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  • John G. Murdoch (pub.)
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  • Heroines of Shakspeare
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  • Songs & Sonnets of Shakespeare
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Category Archives: Tragedy

Troilus and Cressida

Coriolanus

Antony and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar

Titus Andronicus

Timon of Athens

Macbeth

Romeo and Juliet

Cymbeline

Othello

Hamlet

Cleopatra

Portia, Wife of Brutus

Virgilia

Imogen

Helen

Cressida

Juliet

Ophelia

Lady Macbeth

Desdemona

Cordelia

Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun

The Poor Soul sat sighing

hark! hark! the lark

Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly Shepherd?

And will he not come again?

And let me the Canakin clink

Plumpy Bacchus

Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind

Mr. George Bennett as Apemantus

Miss Glyn as Cleopatra

Mr. Macready as Cassius and Mr. E. L. Davenport as Brutus

Mr. Macready as Brutus

Mr. H. Marston as Marc Antony

Mr. Creswick as Coriolanus

Mr Vandenhoff as Coriolanus

Mr. T Mead as Iachimo

The Late Miss Laura Addison as Imogen

Charlotte and Susan Cushman as Romeo And Juliet

Miss Vandenhoff as Juliet

Mr William Farren as Romeo and Mr Hoskins as Mercutio

Mr Macready as King Lear

Mr George Bennet as Othello and Miss Jane Bennett as Desdemona

Mr Macready as Iago

Mr Couldock as Iago

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Othello

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Macbeth

Mr. Phelps as Macbeth

Miss Glyn as Lady Macbeth

Mr H. Hall and Mr. Vaudrey

Mr. Phelps and Miss Glyn

Mr. Charles Kean as Hamlet

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Hamlet

Mr. Barry Sullivan as Hamlet

Mr Macready as Hamlet and Mr Stuart as The Ghost

The Two Princes

Caesar and the Soothsayer

Coriolanus, Virgilia and Volumnia

Desdemona, Othello and Brabantio

King Lear and Cordelia

Juliet and Nurse

Ophelia

Macbeth and the Witches

The Death of Antony

Othello and Desdemona

Lear and Gloster

Lear, Kent, and Fool

Hamlet and the Players

Macbeth and Macduff

Brutus and Portia

Romeo and the Apothecary

Romeo and Juliet

Coriolanus and Virgilia

Troilus and Cressida

Posthumus and Iachimo

Cymbeline

Imogen, Cymbeline and Iachimo

Posthumus and Gaolers

Posthumus

Cymbeline and Pisanio

Guiderius, Belarius, Arviragus and Imogen

Belarius, Guiderius, Arviragus and Cloten’s Head

Imogen

Pisanio and Cloten

Pisanio and Imogen

Belarius, Guiderius and Arviragus

Iachimo, Posthumus and Philario

Cloten and Imogen

Iachimo and Imogen

Queen, Pisanio and Cornelius

Posthumus and Iachimo

Posthumus and Imogen

Cymbeline Headpiece

Cymbeline Full Page Introductory Illustration

Antony and Cleopatra Tailpiece

Cleopatra, Charmian and the Death of Iras

Cleopatra and Clown with Basket

Caesar and the Sword of Antony

Cleopatra and Antony

Cleopatra

Antony and Forces

Thyreus and Cleopatra

Cleopatra and Antony

Octavia and Octavius Caesar

Octavius Caesar, Antony and Octavia

Ventidius and the Body of the King

Antony

Cleopatra and Messenger

Octavius Caesar and Antony

Lepidus, Octavius Caesar and Messenger

Antony and Cleopatra

Soothsayer, Alexas, Charmian and Iras

Antony and Cleopatra Full Page Introductory Illustration

Antony and Cleopatra Full Page Introductory Illustration

Othello Tailpiece

The Death of Desdemona

Othello and Desdemona

Death of Roderigo

Emilia and Desdemona

Iago and Othello

Cassio and Bianca

Emilia and Iago

Iago and Othello

Cassio and Desdemona

Iago and Cassio

Othello and Desdemona

Roderigo and Iago

Desdemona, Othello and Brabantio

Othello and Iago

Roderigo, Iago and Brabantio

Othello Headpiece

Othello Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Lear Tailpiece

Death of Cordelia

Lear

Lear and Cordelia

Lear, Gloster and Edgar

Gloster and Edgar

Gloster and Edgar

Gloster and Cornwall

Lear, Kent, Fool and Gloster

Lear, Edgar, Fool and Kent

Lear and Fool on the Heath

Lear, Goneril and Regan

Edgar

Kent and Oswald

Lear, Fool and Kent

Lear and Goneril

Edmund and Edgar

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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 Dicks John G. Murdoch John Gilbert John Tallis 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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