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
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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
      • 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
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  • 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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  • Imperial Edition
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Category Archives: John Gilbert

Robert Faulconbridge and Philip the Bastard

King John Act I Header

King John Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Richard II in Coffin

The Death of King Richard II

Exton and Servant

Bolingbroke as King

King Richard II Act V Header

Bishop of Carlisle, Abbot of Westminster and Aumerle

King Richard II Act IV Header

The Queen Listens to the Gardener and Servants

King Richard II and Bolingbroke

King Richard II Act III Header

The Queen, Bushy and Bagot

The Death of Gaunt

King Richard II Act II Header

In the King’s Palace

Combatants

John of Gaunt

King Richard II Act I Header

King Richard II Full Page Introductory Illustration

Falstaff is Beaten at Herne’s Oak

Falstaff as Stag

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly

Falstaff is Beaten by Ford

The Merry Wives of Windsor Act IV Header

Falstaff is Thrown into the River

Bardolph

Falstaff in the Basket

Falstaff Hides

Falstaff and Mistress Ford

The Merry Wives of Windsor Act III Header

Falstaff and Ford

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly

Falstaff and Pistol

Ford, Page, Pistol and Nim

Caius Attacks Simple

John Rugby

Pistol and Nym are Angered

Falstaff Giving Out Letters

Anne Page

Falstaff

The Merry Wives of Windsor Full Page Introductory Illustration

God Save Thee, My Sweet Boy!

In Shallow’s Garden

Westminster

King Henry IV Part II Act V Header

Hal Becomes King

King Henry IV Falls Ill

In Westminster Palace

King Henry IV Part II Act IV Header

Falstaff Chooses His Army

Shallow and Silence

King Henry IV Part II Act III Header

Bardolph, Mistress Quickly and Doll Tearsheet

Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet

Two Drawers

Northumberland, Lady Northumberland and Lady Percy

Falstaff and Mistress Quickly

Falstaff and the Lord Chief Justice

King Henry IV Part II Act II Header

In the Archbishop’s Palace (II)

In the Archbishop’s Palace

Falstaff and Page

King Henry IV Part II Act I Header

King Henry IV Part II Full Page Introductory Illustration

The Battlefield

Falstaff

Hotspur

King Henry IV Part I Act V Header

Archbishop of York and a Gentleman

Falstaff’s Soldiers

King Henry IV Part I Act IV Header

Falstaff, Mistress Quickly and Bardolph

Falstaff and Bardolph

King Henry IV Part I Act III Header

Hal, Peto and Falstaff

Falstaff Tells a Story

Francis

Hotspur Reading a Letter

Falstaff Runs Away

Gadshill

Bardolph

King Henry IV Part I Act II Header

Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur

Hotspur

A Room in the Palace

Hal and Falstaff

King Henry IV Part I Act I Header

King Henry IV Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

Pipers

Beatrice Unmasks

Inside a Church

Benedick and Margaret

Benedick, Don Pedro and Claudio

Much Ado About Nothing Act V Header

Much Ado About Nothing Act IV Tailpiece

A Prison

Benedick and Beatrice

Much Ado About Nothing Act IV Header

Dogberry and Verges

Borachio and Conrade

Dogberry, Verges and the Watch

Beatrice Listens In…

Much Ado About Nothing Act III Header

Benedick Listens In…

Don John and Borachio

Much Ado About Nothing Act II Header

Don John, Conrade and Borachio

Leonato and Antonio

Benedick and Beatrice

Much Ado About Nothing Act I Header

Much Ado About Nothing Full Page Introductory Illustration

Bottom Awakes

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV Header

Lysander and Puck

The Mechanicals Run Away From Bottom

Puck and Oberon

Bottom and Fairies

Bottom as an Ass

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III Header

Fairies’ Song

A Mermaid on a Dolphin’s Back

Puck Lurking in a Gossip’s Bowl

Puck Misleading Night Wanderers

Puck Frightening Maidens

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act II Header

Bottom

The Mechanicals

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act I Header

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Full Page Introductory Illustration

The Merchant of Venice Act V Tailpiece

The Merchant of Venice Act V Header

A Street in Venice

Shylock

Portia

The Merchant of Venice Act IV Header

Shylock, Antonio, Salarino and Gaoler

Shylock, Salarino, and Solanio

The Merchant of Venice Act III Header

The Merchant of Venice Act II Tailpiece

Shylock

Lorenzo and Jessica

Gratiano and Salerio

Shylock and Jessica

Jessica and Launcelot

Bassanio, Gobbo and Launcelot

Launcelot and Gobbo

The Merchant of Venice Act I Header

The Merchant of Venice Full Page Introductory Illustration

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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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