Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 285
Shakespeare and other playwrights and poets are quoted in a popular anthology.
Writers on 'Time' who are represented in the Parnassus anthology include George Chapman, Thomas Lodge, Michael Drayton, ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. A6r.
A subject list of work by Shakespeare and his fellow writers.
The subject 'table' shows how the editor of England's Parnassus had chosen to group the quotations, to allow readers to search the book ...
Robert Allott, compiler, England's Parnassus, 1600 - title page
Popular verses by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Early references to the work of William Shakespeare appeared in print from 1592. This book is a collection of many short quotations from contemporary ...
Robert Allott, compiler,England's Parnassus, 1600 - p. 182, detail.
Shakespeare and other playwrights on ‘love’.
The Parnassus anthology groups quotations by their theme, including Marlowe on love. Christopher Marlowe, who was two months older than Shakespeare, ...
Russian Quatercentenary Medal
This bronze medal was made in USSR for the four-hundredth anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Designed by I. Daragan.
One side features a bust of Shakespeare derived from the Droeshout engraving. ...
Russian Quatercentenary Medal
This bronze medal was made in USSR for the four-hundredth anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Designed by I. Daragan.
One side features a bust of Shakespeare derived from the Droeshout engraving. ...
Shakespeare Club Medal
A bronze medal commemorating the establishment of the Shakespeare Club in 1824. Designed by T.W. Ingram, Birmingham.
This bust of Shakespeare on this side is copied from the Holy Trinity Church memorial ...
Shakespeare Club Medal
A bronze medal commemorating the establishment of the Shakespeare Club in 1824. Designed by T.W. Ingram, Birmingham.
Shakespeare is shown being crowned with a laurel wreath by two female figures representing ...
Shakespeare Club Silver Medal
A silver medal commemorating the formation of the Shakespearian Club in 1824. It seems that the bust is loosely based on the Chandos Portrait. Engraved by J. Ottley of Birmingham.
The medal is attached ...
Shakespeare Medal
A bronze commemorative medal by F. Barre, from the Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium, 1818.
This bronze medal is part of the French Numismatic Series of Illustrious Men of the World which ...
Shakespeare Medal
A bronze commemorative medal by F. Barre, from the Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium, 1818.
The Latin inscription, 'NATUS STRATFORDIAE IN BRITANNIA. An M.D.LXIV Obit. An. M.DC.XVI' on this ...
Silver Commemorative Medal
A silver medal commemorating the establishment of the Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1824. Struck by T.W. Ingram of Birmingham.
On this side, Shakespeare is shown being crowned with laurels ...
Silver Commemorative Medal
A silver medal commemorating the establishment of the Shakespeare Club of Stratford-upon-Avon in 1824. Struck by T.W. Ingram of Birmingham.
On this side, Shakespeare is shown being crowned with laurels ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - instructions for the mews, Book 2, p.11.
The care of hawks: a familiar occupation for Shakespeare.
Falconry was not only a sport of the nobility. In Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor Master Page invites his friends to early morning ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - second title page of Book 2, p.1v., detail
Everyday travel on horseback for Shakespeare’s fellow countrymen.
Most Elizabethans, and people for centuries later, traveling both within a local area or, like Shakespeare, from the country ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page book 2.
Petruchio talks of training his hawk in The Taming of The Shrew
Petruchio who has won a wife with a fortune in The Taming of the Shrew, talks about training her to his wishes by starving her, and constraining ...
Simon Latham, Latham's falconry, 1615 - title page, [A1r].
A falconry handbook on a subject well known by Shakespeare.
Falconry was a popular sport with the Elizabethan gentry and nobility. Latham’s handbook describes all aspects of ‘the princely ...
Souvenir Badge
A souvenir badge which features a picture of Shakespeare derived from the Droeshout engraving from the 'First Folio'.
Identity number SBT 1989-24/27