Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

by Michael John Goodman

Tag Archives: Snakes

Antony and Cleopatra Tailpiece

Cleopatra, Charmian and the Death of Iras

Hamlet Full Page Introductory Illustration

Macbeth and Witches

Prospero, Ariel, Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano

‘Apes that moe and chatter’

Serpent-charmers of India

Scene III – ‘Lay sleeping on his back.’

Holofernes as Judas Maccabaeus, and Moth as Hercules

Cherub with Book

Cymbeline Act II Tailpiece

Othello Full Page Introductory Illustration

Macbeth Full Page Introductory Illustration

Hamlet Act II Tailpiece

Cleopatra and Charmian

Coriolanus Title Page

Othello Act IV Header

Othello Act I Header

Othello Dramatis Personae

Othello Title Page

Othello Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Lear Act II Tailpiece

Hamlet Full Page Introductory Illustration

Macbeth Act I Header

Macbeth Title Page

King Henry VIII Act III Header

King Henry VI Part III Act I Header

King Henry VI Part II Act III Header

King Henry IV Part II Act IV Header

Snake

Much Ado About Nothing Act IV Header

Snake in the Grass

Twelfth Night Full Page Introductory Illustration

The Tempest Dramatis Personae

Rare Visions…

Achilles Actors Angelo Animals Antipholus of Syracuse Antonio Armour Army Arthur Arviragus Ass Audrey Autolycus Axes Babies Bardolph Bars Baskets and Boxes Bassanio Bats Beds Beheadings Belarius Birds Biron Books Bottles Bows and Arrows Bridges Brutus Bugs and Insects Cardinal Wolsey Cassio Cassius Castles and Palaces Caves Celia Chains Chairs Charmian Cherubs and Babies Chests Children Chorus Christopher Sly Citizens Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing) Clown (The Winter's Tale) Clowns and Jesters Coins Conflict Cordelia Costard Countess of Roussillon Crab Crowns Crucifix Curtains Daggers Dancing Death Deers and Stags Dogs Don Pedro Doorways Drink Dromio of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Duke of Clarence Duke of Gloster Dumaine Earl of Kent Earl of Warwick Edgar Emilia Fairies Fans Feste Fire Fires Flags Flora and Fauna Flowers Flying Fountains Ghosts Glasses Goneril Grumio Guiderius Headpieces Henry Bolingbroke Hero Horatio horns Horses Hotspur Iachimo Induction Jack Cade Jessica Joan La Pucelle John of Gaunt Julius Caesar Justice Shallow King Edward IV King Henry IV King Henry VI King of Navarre Kings Lanterns and Lamps Leonato Letters Longueville Lord Talbot Lucio Maria (Twelfth Night) Masks Mistress Ford Mistress Page Monsters Moon Murderers Musicians and Music Night Nurse Pandarus Parolles Perdita Pericles Philip the Bastard Pictures Pillars Pistol Plates Poins Polixenes Polonius Portraits Posthumus Pots Princess of France (Love's Labour's Lost) Queen (Richard II) Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth I Queen Katherine Queen Margaret Queens Reading and Writing Regan Richard Duke of Gloster Richard Plantagenet Rings Sea Ships and Boats Shipwrecks Shovels and Spades Sir Hugh Evans Skulls Sleep Slender Smoke Snakes Soldiers Spears Speed Staff Staffs Statues Stephano Stools Storms Streets Supplementary Notice Swords Tables Tailpieces Tents The Fool The King of France The Watch Thrones Tombs Torches Touchstone Trees Tress Trinculo Views Vines Virgilia Volumnia Walking Sticks Walls Water Whips Wings Witches Wood Woods and Forests

Gaze therein...

Act I Act I Headers Act II Act II Headers Act III Act III Headers Act IV Act IV Headers 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 Bottom Caliban Charles Knight Cleopatra Comedy Coriolanus (Character) Coriolanus (Play) Cymbeline Desdemona Dramatis Personae Exterior Full Page Illustrations H.C. Selous Hamlet (Play) Helena (All's Well That Ends Well) Hermione History Iago Imogen Interior Introductory Remarks / Notice John Gilbert 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) Leontes Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth (Character) Macbeth (Play) Marc Antony Measure For Measure Mistress Quickly Much Ado About Nothing Ophelia Orlando Othello (Character) Othello (Play) Pericles Petruchio Prince Hal Prince Hamlet Prospero Puck Queen Gertrude Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind Shylock Sir Andrew Aguecheek Sir John Falstaff Sir Toby Belch 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) Title Pages Tragedy Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night

Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive by Michael John Goodman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

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

Dr Michael John Goodman works at Cardiff University. You can contact him at: goodmanmj@cardiff.ac.uk or on Twitter @DrMikeyGoodman

Or visit michaeljohngoodman.org to learn more about Michael’s work.