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Map of Nowhere
Grayson Perry (1960 - )
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
Shakespeare Sonnet 11
Sir Sidney Nolan (1917 - 1992)
Anthony and Cleopatra
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Henry VI
Mark Lancaster (1938 - 2021)
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“Macbeth”: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible of feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation?
John S Hawley (1939 - )
“A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”
Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989)
Macbeth
Ernest Alfred Dunn (1937 - )
“Henry V”: Battle of Agincourt
Jill Mustchin (1939 - )
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Barbara Brownlee (1940 - )
“Richard III”: My kingdom for a horse
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
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“Richard III”
John Hacker (1936 - )
Shakespeare’s Kings
Bernard Cheese (1925 - 2013)
“Macbeth”: Birnham Wood to High Dunsinane
Brian Perrin (1932 - )
Maxton as “Hamlet”
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Edwin La Dell (1914 - 1970)
As You like It
Julian Trevelyan (1910 - 1988)
“Julius Caesar”: Et tu Brute
Don Bessant (1941 - )
“Hamlet”: Nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered
Sandra Blow (1925 - 2006)
“As You Like It”. Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Rosalind: “Wear This For Me”
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
“The Merchant of Venice”: The quality of mercy…
John Joo For Lee (28/05/1929 - 2017)
“The Merchant of Venice”: The quality of mercy…
John Joo For Lee (28/05/1929 - 2017)
The Play Scene from ‘Hamlet’
Daniel, (after) Maclise
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Barbara Brownlee (1940 - )
Ophelia
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bottom and the Fairies
Anthony Gross (1905 - 1984)
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“Macbeth”: Hail, King of Scotland
Edward Hoskins (1939 - )
Ophelia
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
Backstage, Hamlet
Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Edwin La Dell (1914 - 1970)
As You Like It
Julian Trevelyan (1910 - 1988)
Richard III
David Freed (1936 - )
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’, Act IV, Scene 3
Thomas Stothard (1755 - 1834)
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
“Macbeth”: Out, out brief candle!”
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
Claire Bloom and Paul Scofield in “Hamlet”
Dame Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
“Henry IV Part 2”: Sir John Falstaff and Mr Justice Shallow recruiting in Gloucestershire
Brian Robb (1913 - 1979)
Shakespeare’s XV Sonnet
Joe Tilson (1928 - 2023)
Mrs Gwynne and Mrs Bunbury in the Characters of “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Daniel Gardner (c.1750 - 1805)
William Dickinson (1746 - 1823)
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bottom and the Fairies
Anthony Gross (1905 - 1984)
David Garrick (1717-1779) actor, playwright and theatre manager
Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
Valentine Green (1739 - 1813)
“Macbeth”: Out, out brief candle!
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
“Macbeth”: Out, out brief candle!
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace as Restored in 1861-2, at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Frederick Shephard
Thomas Henry Ellis (1814 - 1886)
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G is for Globe Theatre
Alan Kitching (1940 - )
“Henry V”: Battle of Agincourt
Jill Mustchin (1939 - )
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Bottom and the Fairies
Anthony Gross (1905 - 1984)
“Coriolanus”
Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
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“Macbeth”: Hail, King of Scotland
Edward Hoskins (1939 - )
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