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: Interior

hark! hark! the lark

Sigh no more, Ladies

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

Garrick as Richard 3rd

Mr. Couldock as Richard III

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. Creswick as Hotspur

Mr. Macready as Richard II

Mr. G. Bennett as Hubert

Miss Glyn as Constance

Mr. Henry Betty as Faulconbridge

Prince Arthur and Hubert

Mr. George Bennett as Apemantus

Miss Glyn as Cleopatra

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

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 George Bennet as Othello and Miss Jane Bennett as Desdemona

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Macbeth

Mr. Phelps as Macbeth

Miss Glyn as Lady Macbeth

Mr. Phelps and Miss Glyn

Mr. Charles Kean as Hamlet

Mr. M’Kean Buchanan as Hamlet

Mr. Barry Sullivan as Hamlet

Mrs Warner as Hermione

Miss Jenny Marston and Mr. F Robinson as Florizel and Perdita

Mr Atkins and Miss Cross as Grumio and Curtis

Mrs Mowatt as Beatrice

Miss Glyn and Mr. Hoskins as Isabella and Lucio

Mrs. Winstanley as Mrs. Quickly.

The Two Princes

Desdemona, Othello and Brabantio

King Lear and Cordelia

Juliet and Nurse

Helena and the King

Petruchio and Katharina

Isabella and Claudio

Portraits

Lear, Kent, and Fool

Hamlet and the Players

Romeo and the Apothecary

Wolsey and Buckingham

Henry V. and Katherine of France

Hermione and Leontes

Helena and the Countess

Bottom, as Pyrmaus

Falstaff and Ford

Gower

Lysimachus

Cleon and Dionyza

Marina

Posthumus and Iachimo

Posthumus and Gaolers

Cymbeline and Pisanio

Iachimo, Posthumus and Philario

Iachimo and Imogen

Queen, Pisanio and Cornelius

Posthumus and Iachimo

Cymbeline Full Page Introductory Illustration

Cleopatra, Charmian and the Death of Iras

Cleopatra and Clown with Basket

Cleopatra

Thyreus and Cleopatra

Cleopatra and Messenger

Octavius Caesar and Antony

Lepidus, Octavius Caesar and Messenger

Antony and Cleopatra

Soothsayer, Alexas, Charmian and Iras

The Death of Desdemona

Othello and Desdemona

Emilia and Desdemona

Cassio and Bianca

Roderigo and Iago

Desdemona, Othello and Brabantio

Othello Full Page Introductory Illustration

Lear and Cordelia

Gloster and Cornwall

Lear, Goneril and Regan

Lear and Goneril

Cordelia, France, Goneril and Regan

Lear and Map

King Lear Full Page Introductory Illustration

Good Night, Sweet Prince

Hamlet, Horatio and Osric

Horatio Reading

Ophelia

Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Hamlet and Claudius

Hamlet and Ophelia

Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Hamlet and Player

Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Polonius and Ophelia

Polonius and Ophelia

Macbeth and Doctor

Murder

Macbeth

Lady Macbeth and Macbeth

Macbeth and Murderers

Macduff

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth

Brutus, Cassius and Lucius

Antony, Octavius and Lepidus

Caesar and Calphurnia

Timon and Servants

Timon and Creditors

Lucullus and Flaminius

Timon and Ladies

Timon and Jeweller

The Death of Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Apothecary

Juliet, Nurse, Capulet and Lady Capulet

Juliet

Juliet, Lady Capulet and Capulet

Romeo and Friar Laurence

Romeo, Juliet and Friar Laurence

Friar Laurence

Romeo and Servant

Romeo and Juliet Full Page Introductory Illustration

Coriolanus and Servants

Coriolanus and Volumnia

Volumnia and Virgillia

Coriolanus Full Page Introductory Illustration

Thersites and Achilles

King Henry VIII and Crammer

The Vision

Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell

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 and Ratcliff

King Richard and Buckingham

Buckingham and Lord Mayor

Richard and Hastings

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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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