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Byron, George Gordon
Lorca, Federico Garcia
Sterne, Laurence
Marlowe, Christopher
Swift, Jonathan
Melville, Herman
Thompson, James
Lem, Stanislaw
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Calvino, Italo
Yeats, William Butler
Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius
Laforgue, Jules
Rumi, Jajal al-Din
Blake, William
Laforge, Jules
Ovid
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre
Plath, Sylvia
Donne, John
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Fielding, Henry
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
MacDiarmid, Hugh
Shonagon, Sei
Hardy, Thomas
De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
Milton, John
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Alighieri, Dante
Orwell, George
Farid al-Din Attar
Taylor Coleridge, Samuel
Sassoon, Siegfried
Shakespeare, William
Caroll, Lewis
Bernard Shaw, George
Congreve, William
Garcia-Bodaño, Salvador
Shaw, George Bernard
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Plate 8
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Plate 1 [title page]
Chris Orr (1943 - )
Mrs Gwynne and Mrs Bunbury in the Characters of “The Merry Wives of Windsor”
Daniel Gardner (c.1750 - 1805)
William Dickinson (1746 - 1823)
Máis alá dos lindeiros..
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
Mrs. Fontana reading Bernard Shaw
Carel Weight (1908 - 1997)
Plate 3
Chris Orr (1943 - )
William Congreve (1670-1729) playwright and poet
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646 - 1723)
John, I Faber (c.1660 - 1721)
“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)
and the two knights sat and looked at each other for some time without speaking.
Peter Blake (1932 - )
“Macbeth”: Out, out brief candle!
Ruskin Spear (1911 - 1990)
The Transformation of Galanthis into a Weasel
Jean-Michel Moreau (1741 - 1814)
William, I Walker (1729 - 1793)
Embattled Armies
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
the auld houff
William Johnstone (1897 - 1981)
“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)
L’Adieu Suprême des Mouchoirs
Derek Hirst (1930 - 2006)
Ah! storm clouds rushed from the Channel coasts
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
A Show of Mimes and Jugglers
Robert Medley (1905 - 1994)
When I looked at myself, I saw myself no more, because by grace my body had become fine (Jajal al-Din Rumi)
Shirazeh Houshiary (1955 - )
O Ecoar da Berenguela..
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
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G is for Globe Theatre
Alan Kitching (1940 - )
Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms
Sawrey Gilpin (1733 - 1807)
Se uas a Compostela…
Alfonso Costa (1943 - )
Salvador Garcia-Bodaño
Thomas Hardy’s Cottage, Dorset
Graham Clarke (1941 - )
“Henry V”: Battle of Agincourt
Jill Mustchin (1939 - )
“Well, this is grand!” said Alice. “I never expected I should be a Queen so soon.”
Peter Blake (1932 - )
La Souris [The Mouse]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Plate 2
Chris Orr (1943 - )
L’Éléphant [The Elephant]
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
I’ll take my life monotonous
Patrick Caulfield (1936 - 2005)
“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 - )
In Horne’s House
Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)
Julius Caesar
Emma Kay (1961 - )
All’s Well That Ends Well
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Troilus and Cressida
Emma Kay (1961 - )
King Lear
Emma Kay (1961 - )
As You Like It
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Shoreditch as Globe
Adam Dant (1967 - )
A Winter’s Tale
Emma Kay (1961 - )
The Merchant of Venice
Emma Kay (1961 - )
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Coriolanus
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Bird Garden with Intestinal Self-Portrait
Samira Abbassy (1965 - )
Much Ado About Nothing
Emma Kay (1961 - )
The Taming of the Shrew
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Cymbeline
Emma Kay (1961 - )
Hamlet
Emma Kay (1961 - )
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