Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive

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  • Charles Knight (ed.)
    • Comedies
      • All’s Well That Ends Well
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      • 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
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      • King Henry V
      • King Henry VI Part I
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
      • Antony and Cleopatra
      • Coriolanus
      • Cymbeline
      • King Lear
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • King Henry VI Part III
      • King Henry VIII
      • King John
      • King Richard II
      • King Richard III
    • Tragedies
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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • 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.)
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Tag Archives: Swords

Cymbeline

Garrick as Richard 3rd

Mr. J. W. Wallack as Gloster

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

Mr. Creswick as Hotspur

Mr Macready as King John and Mr Cooper as Hubert

Miss Glyn as Constance

Mr. Creswick as Coriolanus

Miss Glyn as Lady Macbeth

Mr Macready as Hamlet and Mr Stuart as The Ghost

Mr. Macready as Benedick

Falstaff and Pistol

Macbeth and Macduff

Richard at Bosworth Field

Jack Cade and Lord Say

Prince Henry and Poins

Austria, Bastard and Constance

Imogen

Pisanio and Imogen

Caesar and the Sword of Antony

Death of Roderigo

Kent and Oswald

Good Night, Sweet Prince

Hamlet and Claudius

Hamlet Headpiece

Macbeth and Macduff

Murder

Macbeth Headpiece

Julius Caesar Tailpiece

Gregory, Sampson and Abraham

Caius Marcius Coriolanus

Marcius and Soldiers

Achilles and Hector’s Body

Agamemnon and Nestor

The Death of Richard

King Richard and Ratcliff

King Richard and Duchess of York

Clarence and Murderers

The Death of Prince Edward

Richard

King Henry VI Part III Full Page Introductory Illustration

Warwick

Jack Cade

King Henry VI Part II Headpiece

Pucelle

Death of Talbot

Talbot in Battle

King Henry VI in Paris

Sentinel

Salisbury

King Henry VI Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

Pistol

King Henry V and Pistol

Fluellen

Mistress Quickly, Pistol, Nym and Bardolph

King Henry V Full Page Introductory Illustration

Falstaff and Pistol

King Henry V

Falstaff and Prince John

Westmoreland and Hastings

Falstaff Fights Pistol

Prince Hal and Falstaff

Battle

Hotspur and Blunt

King Henry IV and Prince Hal

Falstaff Tells a Story

Prince Hal, Falstaff and Poins

King Henry IV Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

King Richard II Tailpiece

King Richard and Salisbury

Bolingbroke and Northumberland

Combatants

Bastard

King Philip

King John and Philip

King John Headpiece

Sir Toby, Olivia and Sebastian

Sir Toby and Sir Andrew

All’s Well that Ends Well Tailpiece

Parolles and Helena

Petruchio and Grumio

Petruchio and Katherina

Lucentio and Tranio

Bassanio Chooses a Casket

Farewell

A Page Reads

Armando and Jaquenetta

Much Ado About Nothing Full Page Introductory Illustration

Mistaken Identity

Falstaff and Mistress Ford

Rugby and Caius

Falstaff and Pistol

Falstaff, Pistol and Nym

Valentine, Speed and Outlaws

Edward Prince of Wales (son of Edward IV) – From his seal engraved in Archaeologia, vol xx.

Pomfret Castle – Scene III

Sir Thomas Vaughan – From an Effigy on brass plate in Westminster Abbey

John Howard, first Duke of Norfolk and Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey

King Richard III Full Page Introductory Illustration

George Duke of Clarence – From Warwick Roll, in Library of College of Arms

Edward Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI – From a Seal in Sandford’s ‘General History’

King Henry VI Part III Full Page Introductory Illustration

Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick – From the Warwick Roll in the College of Arms, London

Parliament in the Abbey at Bury

Henry VI and Court; John Talbot receiving a Sword – from Strutt’s ‘Dresses and Habits’

Joan of Arc – From a painting in Town Hall of Rouen

Figures from the Monument of Charles VII and La Pucelle at Orleans

King Henry VI Part I Full Page Introductory Illustration

John (Sans Peur) Duke of Burgundy

Helmet, Shield, and Saddle, of Henry V

Sir Thomas Erpingham

Swords and Crowns, from Holinshead’s Chronicle

Richard II knighting Henry of Monmouth

Portrait of Henry V

King Henry V Full Page Introductory Illustration

Henry V. When Prince of Wales

The Ancient ‘Vice’

Ancient Rapier, with inscription

Prince Henry and Falstaff – ‘Poor Jack, farewell’

Room in the Boar’s Head

Portrait of Earl of Westmoreland

Hotspur and the Fop

Hotspur denying his Prisoners

Portrait of Richard II in his armour

King John Full Page Introductory Illustration

Lewis, Dauphin of France, from his Seal

Henry III, from his great Seal

Richard Coeur de Lion Forgiving Bertrand de Jourdan

King John

Ceremony of creating a Knight on the Field of Battle

Altar at St. Edmundsbury, Group of Priests and Barons

Great Seal &c of John

Antony and Cleopatra Full Page Introductory Illustration

Border. Roman Weapons and a View of Rome

Border: Banners and Arms

Edgar – ‘I heard myself proclaim’d’

Venetian Glaive, Halberds, and Sword of an Estradiot. From the Meyrick Collection

Venetian Soldier of guard. From Vecellio

Othello Full Page Introductory Illustration

Roman and British Weapons. From engraved specimens in Meyrick and Montfaucon

Combat of Posthumus and Iachimo

‘Sword-belts or Hangers’

Ophelia. ‘White his shroud as the mountain snow.’

‘Smote the sledded Polacks’

Border

‘Like unscour’d armour hung by the wall’

Measure for Measure Full Page Introductory Illustration

Border – The Seven Ages

Portrait of Moll Cut-Purse – From Middleton’s ‘Roaring Girl’

Twelfth Night Full Page Introductory Illustration

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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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