shakespeare and the classical world...midsummer night’s dream 1908 dr william sterling arthur...

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Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

William Shakespeare Anonymous C17th portrait

SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICAL WORLD


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


George Romney Shakespeare attended by Nature and the Passions 1790s Dr William Sterling

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Henry Fuseli Infant Shakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1805


Richard WestallShakespeare between Tragedy and Comedy 1825


Martin DroeshoutTitle Page of the First Folio 1623

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Gerard Johnson Shakespeare monument Stratford c 1623


Henry Wallis Gerard Johnson carving Shakespeare’s funerary monument 1857


Poets’ Corner Westminster Abbey designed by William Kent 1740 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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


Richard Dadd Titania Sleeping 1841 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Richard Dadd Contradiction, Oberon and Titania 1858

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Sir Joshua Reynolds Two Versions of Puck 1789Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

George Romney Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow1792


George Romney Titania, Puck and the Changeling 1793 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Henry Fuseli Two Versions of Puck 1810s


Thomas Woolner Puck 1847 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

William EttyTitania and the Fairies c 1830

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William Etty Titania c 1830 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Robert Huskisson The Midsummer Night’s Fairies 1847


Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Quarrel Between Oberon and Titania 1850Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Sir Joseph Noel Paton Oberon and the Mermaid 1883

Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, Greek C3rd BC Nereid on a dolphin terracotta, GreekNereid Monument from Lycia c. 380 BC, British Museum

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Sir Joseph Noel Paton The Reconciliation of Oberon and Titania 1847


Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1789


Henry Fuseli Titania and Bottom 1790 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Henry Fuseli Titania Awakening 1789


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 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

Arthur Rackham Bottom 1908


Arthur RackhamMidsummer Night’s Dream1908


Arthur RackhamMidsummer Night’s Dream1908


Daniel MacliseThe Disenchantment of Bottom 1832


William Blake Oberon, Titania, Puck and Fairies Dancing 1786

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Washington Allston Hermia and Helena 1818


John Simmons Scene from Midsummer Night’s Dream 1873


John Simmons Hermia and Lysander 1870


Robert SmirkeLysander Declaring his Passion for Helena 1825


William Heath Robinson Illustrated Midsummer Night’s Dream 1914Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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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 1480Pyramus 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 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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 GalleryAchilles and Hector Krater c. 480 BC, British Museum

Achilles dragging the body of Hector C6th BC, British MuseumAchilles 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


Sir Edward Poynter Cressida 1888


John Opie Portrait of a lady as Cressida 1800


Jean-Michel Moreau (France) Troilus and Cressida 1783


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


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


Wyndham LewisTimon of Athensc. 1930

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, mssof 1413-1415, Getty

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Thomas StothardMarina Singing for Pericles1825


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, PradoDr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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 MuseumDeath of Adonis by Giordano 1684-1686, Medici Palace Florence


The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 Edition


William Hogarth Scene from the Tempest 1730


William Hamilton Prospero, Ariel and Sleeping Miranda c 1790


Henry Fuseli Miranda, Prospero, Ariel and Caliban 1797

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Joseph Wright Ferdinand and Miranda in Prospero’s Cell 1800 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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


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


Sir Thomas LawrenceJohn 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


1879 Poster for BroadwayProduction StarringStuart Robson andWilliam Crane


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


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 BaltimoreDr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

William Blake Brutus and Caesar’s Ghost c 1805


Richard WestallBrutus and Caesar’s Ghost 1802


Alexandre BidaBrutus 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 BCThe Portland Vase possibly showing Antony leaving Octavia for Cleopatra, British Museum

AugustusOctavia

Antony Cleopatra

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Possible marble bust of Cleopatra, British Museum

Cleopatra bronze 80 drachma minted in Alexandria, Hunterian

Blacas Cameo, sardonyx, showing Augustus as Jupiter, British Museum

Battle of Actium by Lorenzo Castro 1672, National Maritime Museum


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


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


William Waterhouse Cleopatra 1888


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


Anne Seymour Damer Cleopatra with Antony’s Body c 1800


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


Thomas DickseeCleopatra 1876

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Reginald Arthur The Death of Cleopatra 1892 Dr William Sterlingwww.williamsterling.co.uk

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


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

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John FaedPosthumus and Imogen in Cymbeline c 1875


Henry Justice Ford Posthumus and Imogen c 1910


Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Ellen Terry as Imogen 1896


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


Herbert Gustav SchmalzImogen 1888


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


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


Hubert-François Gravelot Two Scenes from Titus Andronicus 1744 Dr William Sterling

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James Roberts Miss Hopkins as Lavinia in Titus Andronicus 1776


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


William Blake Fiery Pegasus based on lines in Henry IV 1809

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William Hamilton Joan of Arc and the Furiesfrom Henry VI 1790


Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and Horatioin the Graveyard1835


Eugène Delacroix Hamlet and Horatio in the Graveyard 1843


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


John Linnell Untitled 1843


Sir Thomas LawrenceJohn Philip Kemble as Hamlet 1801

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