14/08/2018 SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD William Shakespeare - - PDF document

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William Shakespeare Anonymous C17th portrait

SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD

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Angelica Kauffmann The Birth of Shakespeare and Fame decorating Shakespeare’s Tomb 1770s

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George Romney Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions 1790s

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Henry Fuseli Infant Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1805

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Richard Westall Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1825

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Martin Droeshout Title Page of the First Folio 1623

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Gerard Johnson Shakespeare monument Stratford c 1623

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Henry Wallis Gerard Johnson carving Shakespeare’s funerary monument 1857

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Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey designed by William Kent 1740

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Johann Zoffany David Garrick and his wife by their Temple to Shakespeare 1762

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Richard Dadd Titania Sleeping 1841

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Richard Dadd Contradiction, Oberon and Titania 1858

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Sir Joshua Reynolds Two Versions of Puck 1789

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George Romney Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow 1792

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George Romney Titania, Puck and the Changeling 1793

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Henry Fuseli Two Versions of Puck 1810s

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Thomas Woolner Puck 1847

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William Etty Titania and the Fairies c 1830

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William Etty Titania c 1830

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Robert Huskisson The Midsummer Night’s Fairies 1847

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Quarrel Between Oberon and Titania 1850

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton Oberon and the Mermaid 1883 Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek C3rd BC Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek Nereid Monument from Lycia c. 380 BC, British Museum

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania 1847

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Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1789

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Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1790

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Henry Fuseli Titania Awakening 1789

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Sir Edwin Landseer Titania and Bottom 1848 Bottom and Titania, Folger Shakespeare Library Washington DC

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Paul Gervais (France) La Folie de Titania 1897

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Arthur Rackham Bottom 1908

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Arthur Rackham Midsummer Night’s Dream 1908

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Arthur Rackham Midsummer Night’s Dream 1908

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Daniel Maclise The Disenchantment

• f Bottom 1832

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William Blake Oberon, Titania, Puck and Fairies Dancing 1786

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Washington Allston Hermia and Helena 1818

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John Simmons Scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream 1873

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John Simmons Hermia and Lysander 1870

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Robert Smirke Lysander Declaring his Passion for Helena 1825

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William Heath Robinson Illustrated Midsummer Night’s Dream 1914

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Gilbert Bayes Characters From Shakespeare on Saville Theatre Shaftesbury Avenue (now Odeon Cinema) 1931

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Theseus and Hippolyta on Red Figure Dinos c. 440 BC, British Museum Theseus and Pirithuos abducting Antiope c. 500 BC, Louvre Lapith and Centaur from the Parthenon c. 435 BC, British Museum Pyramus and Thisbe Mosaic from the House of Dionysus Paphos C2nd-3rd AD Pyramus and Thisbe Mural, Pompeii Pyramus and Thisbe Woodcut illustration 1473

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Pyramus and Thisbe in Caxton’s Ovid 1480 Pyramus and Thisbe by Cranach C16th, Bamberg Landscape during a Thunderstorm with Pyramus and Thisbe by Poussin 1651, Frankfurt Thisbe running from the Lion at the well from an illustrated Ovid of 1606 Thisbe killing herself from an illustrated Ovid of 1606

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William Waterhouse Thisbe 1909

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Cadmus and the Dragon C6th BC, Louvre Cadmus and the Dragon C5th BC, Louvre Two Followers of Cadmus devoured by a Dragon by van Harlem 1588 , National Gallery Achilles and Hector Krater c. 480 BC, British Museum Achilles dragging the body of Hector C6th BC, British Museum Achilles Killing Hector by Rafael Tegeo c. 1825

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Aeneas and Ascanius with the pigs c. 140-150 AD, British Museum Ajax and Achilles gaming c. 490 BC, Metropolitan Museum The Departure of Ajax Red Figure kylix C5th BC Hector Astyanax and Hecuba c. 370-360 BC, Ruvo Achilles bandaging Patroclus c. 500 BC, Staatliche Museen, Berlin Eric Gill Title Page Troilus and Criseyde 1927

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Cressida in A History of the Destruction of Troy 1287 by Guido della Colonne mss c. 1325 Cressida in the Romain de Troie by Benoit de Sainte-Maure c. 1160 C14th mss

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Sir Edward Poynter Cressida 1888

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John Opie Portrait of a lady as Cressida 1800

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Jean-Michel Moreau (France) Troilus and Cressida 1783

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Henry Fuseli Cressida with Diomedes 1804

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Angelica Kauffmann Troilus sees Cressida with Diomedes 1789 Illustration from Tales from Shakespeare, McLoughlin Bros. 1890

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Hubert-François Gravelot Illustrations for Timon of Athens 1744 Timon of Athens Act I, Scene 2 Timon's prodigality 1802 and Act IV, Scene 1 Timon Renouncing Society 1803, engravings by R. Rhodes and Isaac Taylor after paintings by Henry Howard Johann Heinrich Ramberg Drawing of Timon and the gold Act IV, Scene 3 William Blake after Henry Fuseli - Timon and Alcibiades 1790

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Alcibades being taught by Socrates by François-André Vincent 1776 Félix Auvray Alcibiades with the Courtesans 1833 Jean-Baptiste Regnault Socrates dragging Alcibiades from the Embrace of Sensual Pleasure 1791 Michele de Napoli Death of Alcibiades c. 1839, Naples National Archaeological Museum

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Wyndham Lewis Timon of Athens

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Tyre

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Triumphal Arch Tyre Gold Coin and Marble Bust of Antiochus III the Great of Syria reigned 222-187 BC Tetradracm of Antiochus III after 197 BC with Apollo on reverse Tyche (fortune) of Antioch Roman copy of original of C1st BC by Eutychides, Vatican Roman terracotta of kissing couple from Tarsus, Louvre The Murder of Antiochus III, mss

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Thomas Stothard Marina Singing for Pericles 1825

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John Graham Mr Cooper as Pericles 1796 Aphrodite and Adonis by Aison c. 410 BC, Louvre Adonis’s monument Etruscan c. 250-100 BC, Vatican Venus and Adonis with Cupid by Annibale Carracci c. 1595, Prado

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Peter Paul Rubens Venus and Adonis c. 1620, Metropolitan Museum

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Venus and Cupid mourning the dead Adonis by Cornelis Holsteyn c. 1655, Frans Hals Museum Death of Adonis by Giordano 1684-1686, Medici Palace Florence

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The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Edition

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William Hogarth Scene from the Tempest 1730

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William Hamilton Prospero, Ariel and Sleeping Miranda c 1790

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Henry Fuseli Miranda, Prospero, Ariel and Caliban 1797

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Joseph Wright Ferdinand and Miranda in Prospero’s Cell 1800

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Edmund Dulac Prospero And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune 1908

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Edmund Dulac Prospero Ye Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves 1908 Robert Alexander Hillingford, The Nine Worthies from Love’s Labour’s Lost Tarquin and Lucretia 1571 by Titian, Fitzwilliam Museum Lucretia by Rembrandt 1666, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Angelica Kauffmann Coriolanus and His Mother Volumnia 1765 Gaspare Landi Venturia at the Feet of Coriolanus c. 1800, Rome Volumnia pleading with Coriolanus not to destroy Rome by Richard Westall 1800

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Sir Thomas Lawrence John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus 1798 Celsus Library Ephesus Theatre Ephesus

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Artemis of Ephesus Column base from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus c. 310 BC, British Museum Amphitheatre of Epidamnos, modern Durrës Albania Temple of Apollo, Syracuse Venus Landolina Syracuse Syracusan money with Arethusa

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Tetradrachm of Syracuse with head of Arethusa An 1816 watercolour of Act IV, Scene 1 Antipholus of Ephesus, an officer, and Dromio of Ephesus The Dromios from a frontispiece dated 1890

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1879 Poster for Broadway Production Starring Stuart Robson and William Crane

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Poster for 1938 Production Contemporary marble busts of Caesar and Antony

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Brutus in contemporary bust and one by Michelangelo 1539-1540 Coin of Brutus with the Ides of March and daggers Coin of Cassius with Liberty

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Edward John Poynter The Ides of March from Julius Caesar 1883 Julius Caesar on the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC Karl Theodor von Piloty Murder of Caesar 1865

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Jean-Léon Gérôme The Death of Caesar 1859-1867, Walters Art Museum Baltimore

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William Blake Brutus and Caesar’s Ghost c 1805

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Richard Westall Brutus and Caesar’s Ghost 1802

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Alexandre Bida Brutus and Caesar’s Ghost c 1880 Coin of Antony and Augustus Coin of Antony and Cleopatra Rome under the Second Triumvirate

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The Donations of Alexandria 34 BC The Portland Vase possibly showing Antony leaving Octavia for Cleopatra, British Museum Augustus Octavia Antony Cleopatra

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Possible marble bust

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Edward Bainbridge Copnall Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh as Antony and Cleopatra on St James’s Theatre c. 1950

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Edward Bainbridge Copnall Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra on St James’s Theatre c 1950

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Edward Bainbridge Copnall Lawrence Olivier as Antony on St James’s Theatre c 1950

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William Waterhouse Cleopatra 1888

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Netherlands) The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra 1884

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Anne Seymour Damer Cleopatra with Antony’s Body c 1800

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Alexandre Bida (France) Cleopatra Holds Antony as he Dies c 1890

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Thomas Dicksee Cleopatra 1876

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Reginald Arthur The Death of Cleopatra 1892

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William Etty Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia 1821 Welwyn Garden City grave c. 50 BC, British Museum Bronze coin of Cunobelin Bronze coin of Cunobelin

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George Dawe Imogen Found in the Cave of Belarius from Cymbeline 1809

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John Faed Posthumus and Imogen in Cymbeline c 1875

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Henry Justice Ford Posthumus and Imogen c 1910

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Ellen Terry as Imogen 1896

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Louis Rhead (USA) Iachimo Stealing Imogen’s Bracelet 1918

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Herbert Gustav Schmalz Imogen 1888

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Henry Peacham Tamora pleading with Titus for the life of her son c 1595

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Peter Paul Rubens Tereus confronted with the head of his son Itylus 1637

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The death of Tamora’s sons in Titus Andronicus from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Edition

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Hubert-François Gravelot Two Scenes from Titus Andronicus 1744

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James Roberts Miss Hopkins as Lavinia in Titus Andronicus 1776

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William Blake The Night of Enitharmon’s Joy or the Triple Hecate based on Macbeth 1795

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William Blake Fiery Pegasus based on lines in Henry IV 1809

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William Hamilton Joan of Arc and the Furies from Henry VI 1790

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Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard 1835

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Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard 1843

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Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (France) Hamlet and the Gravediggers 1883

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John Linnell Untitled 1843

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Sir Thomas Lawrence John Philip Kemble as Hamlet 1801