The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels
A hard-backed book called The Ingoldsby Legends of Mirth and Marvels containing fictional short stories with illustrations, 1907.
The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
A booklet, from India, 1868. It has a pale pink cover with black inscription and an image of a sheep.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - binding view
A smart 19th century binding on a Shakespeare 'quarto'.
The ‘quarto’ editions of Shakespeare’s work were published as slim pamphlets. The original binding of this volume, would probably ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - bookplate
An owner’s bookplate in a Shakespeare ‘quarto’.
The ownership of books is frequently indicated by a label or ‘bookplate’ created for an individual owner. The label of ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - Puck's epilogue.
Puck, as Epilogue in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The fairy magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings the play to an end as Puck speaks the epilogue after Theseus and his newly-wed courtiers ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - 'Pyramus and Thisbe' play, p.H3r.
The play presented before the court in Shakespeare's A Midsummer’ Night’s Dream.
The play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’, like the other plays presented in Shakespeare’s Love’s ...
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1600 [1619] - quarto edition, Oberon and Puck, p.C2v.
‘I know a bank where the wild thyme blows...’.
The name ‘quarto’ used for the earliest printed texts of some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays refers to the size of ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2rof the second quarto..
An eternal theme - bastardy and legitimacy in Shakespeare.
Edmund’s evil nature is presented immediately he is alone with the audience. The conflict between legitimate and illegitimate children ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - p.B2r, detail, Edmund's soliloquy.
‘Thou Nature art my goddess’: evil in Shakespeare.
In the 'quarto' edition Edmund, the eldest son of the Earl of Gloucester, is named Bastard in the speech headings, perhaps reflecting ...
William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1608 [1619] - quarto title page.
Title page information about Shakespeare's the play of King Lear.
This 'quarto' page is from the edition with a false earlier date on the title-page, published by Thomas Pavier without the permission ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the play ends with a song of winter
Poetry in Shakespeare's plays: ‘When icicles hang by the wall’.
The play of Love’s Labour’s Lost concludes, as was the custom in many comedies of the time, with a song, in this ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - the Nine Worthies' play ends
The conclusion of a Shakespeare comedy in dance and song: Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Before the winter song comes a song of summer. Both are performed at the end of the play by the group of ...
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, 1631 - title page detail
Shakespeare’s acting company and their theatres.
In Shakespeare's time companies of actors needed a patron to exist within the law. The title-page of a 'quarto' paperback edition of one of Shakespeare's ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 , 'First Folio' - portrait, title page detail.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616.
The portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) from the title page of the first collected edition of his plays.
Full title: William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623 ,'First Folio', - The Tempest, p. A1r.
Shakespeare's first and last: The Tempest.
The Tempest was almost the last play written by William Shakespeare, but in the ‘Folio’ edition it appears first. There was no ‘quarto’ ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'To be or not to be…', p.265, p.oo5r, detail.
‘To be, or not to be’: Shakespeare’s interest in mortality.
Hamlet’s soliloquy beginning: ‘To be, or not to be’ (3,1, lines 58-90), in which the prince contemplates ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - 'Twelfth Night', 'Illyria', p.Y2r, detail.
‘This is Illyria lady.’: The setting of Twelfth Night.
Few of Shakespeare’s comedies were set in England, although it is not known if the playwright ever travelled abroad. When Viola ...
William Shakespeare, Mr William Shakespeares comedies, histories and tragedies..., 1623, 'First Folio' - binding front board
The ‘'cottage-roof'’ style binding for a Shakespeare ‘First Folio’.
Lord Ashburnham’s binding for his copy of the Shakespeare 'First Folio' is simple, but elegant, created ...