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 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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    • View the Complete Set (2)
  • Songs & Sonnets of Shakespeare
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    • View the Complete Set (2)

Category Archives: Exterior

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Troilus and Cressida

Titus Andronicus

Timon of Athens

Macbeth

As You Like It

Two Gentlemen of Verona

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

King Henry VI Part First

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Hamlet

Crabbed Age and Youth

Fear no more the heat o’ the Sun

The Poor Soul sat sighing

Who is Silvia?

You Spotted Snakes (II)

You Spotted Snakes (I)

Come away, come away, Death

Caliban’s Song (II)

Caliban’s Song (I)

As a decrepit Father takes delight

Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly Shepherd?

Over hill, over Dale

Under the Greenwood Tree

Cupid Asleep

Now the hungry Lion Roars

It was a Lover and his Lass

And let me the Canakin clink

Winter. When Icicles hang by the Wall

Plumpy Bacchus

Art thou God to Shepherd turned?

Some glory in their Birth

Come unto these Yellow Sands

Jog on, jog on

The Forester’s Song

Where the Bee Sucks

Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind

Autolycus’s Song

Cardinal Wolsey Entering the Abbey of Leicester

Mr. J. W. Wallack as Gloster

Mr. C. Kean as Gloster

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

Mr Hackett as Falstaff

Mr Macready as King John and Mr Cooper as Hubert

Mr. Macready as Brutus

Mr. Creswick as Coriolanus

Mr Vandenhoff as Coriolanus

Mr William Farren as Romeo and Mr Hoskins as Mercutio

Mr Macready as King Lear

Mr Macready as Iago

Mr Couldock as Iago

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Othello

Mr H. Hall and Mr. Vaudrey

Mr Macready as Hamlet and Mr Stuart as The Ghost

Miss Cooper as Helena

Miss Julia Harland and Miss Conquest as Oberon and Puck

Mr Buckstone as Launcelot Gobbo

Mr Macready as Shylock

Mr. L Murray and Mrs. Stirling as Orlando and Rosalind

Mrs. H. Marston and Mr. F Younge as Audrey and Touchstone

Mr J. P. Harley as Touchstone

Miss Woolgar as Rosalind

Mr E. L. Davenport as Benedick

Mr. Macready as Benedick

Mr. Hackett as Falstaff

Mrs. Fitzwilliam as Mrs Page

Mr. Compton as Launce

Miss Julia St. George as Ariel

Mr. A. Younge as Stephano and Mr. Nye as Trinculo

Falstaff and Hal

Caesar and the Soothsayer

Coriolanus, Virgilia and Volumnia

Ophelia

Macbeth and the Witches

Touchstone, Rosalind and Celia

Titania and Bottom

Shylock

Dogberry and the Watch

Prospero, Ariel, Miranda and Ferdinand

Stratford Church and Shakespeare’s House, As It Was And As It Is

Imogen at the Cave

Lear and Gloster

Brutus and Portia

Romeo and Juliet

Troilus and Cressida

Richard at Bosworth Field

Warwick’s Attack on the King’s Tent

Jack Cade and Lord Say

Henry V. Before Harfleur

King Henry V. and Falstaff

Richard II. and the Queen

Malvolio

Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone

Shylock and Tubal

Armando and Costard

Mariana and Angelo

Pericles Tailpiece

Pirates and Marina

Thaisa in Chest

Simonides, Pericles and Thaisa

Antiochus and Daughter

Tournament

Pericles in the Storm

Antiochus and Thaliard

Pericles and King

Pericles Headpiece

Imogen

Pisanio and Imogen

Posthumus and Imogen

Antony and Cleopatra Tailpiece

Caesar and the Sword of Antony

Cleopatra and Antony

Antony and Forces

Ventidius and the Body of the King

Antony

Antony and Cleopatra Full Page Introductory Illustration

Desdemona and Othello

Iago and Othello

Othello and Desdemona

Othello and Iago

Roderigo, Iago and Brabantio

Othello Headpiece

King Lear Tailpiece

Death of Cordelia

Lear

Lear, Gloster and Edgar

Gloster and Edgar

Gloster and Edgar

Lear, Edgar, Fool and Kent

Edgar

Kent and Oswald

Hamlet Tailpiece

Yorick

Gravediggers

Hamlet and Ghost

The Ghost

Hamlet Full Page Introductory Illustration

Macbeth Tailpiece

Macbeth and Macduff

Macbeth and Banquo

Macbeth and Witches

Macbeth Headpiece

Macbeth Full Page Introductory Illustration

The Death of Brutus

Citizens

Marc Antony

Artemidorus

Brutus

Cassius and Brutus

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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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