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Adaptations and Uses of Shakespeare
in Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture

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Shakespeare-related paintings


(For links related to a specific play or poem: Go to "works")

Shakespeare portraits:

The ("new") Sanders Portrait
Nolen, Stephanie.
"It is time to reveal Shakespeare to the world", Globe and Mail, May 12 2001 [http://www.geocities.com/josephebecker/literature/shakes39.html] (May 2002)
Nolen, Stephanie.
"Is this the face of a genius?" Globe and Mail, May 11 2001 [http://www.euronet.nl/users/warnar/portrait.htm] (May 2002)
New Portrait (large) [http://www.geocities.com/tranquileye/shakespeare/large.html] (May 2001)
Corbeil, Marie-Claude.
The Scientific Examination of the Sanders Portrait of Shakespeare [http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/whats-new/portrait_e.shtml] (May 2002)
A new
Shakespeare portrait? (the Sanders portrait and other portraits of Shakespeare, Marlowe etc. [http://www2.localaccess.com/marlowe/portrait.htm] (May 2001)

The Chandos Portrait
Chandos portrait [http://mh.cla.umn.edu/Chandos.html]

The Droeshout Portrait (1st Folio)
William Blake (based on Droeshout)
[http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Blake.Shakespeare.html] (May 2002)

Shakespeare nursed by Tragedy and Comedy Boydell, [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0148.html]

Images and Pictures of Shakespeare [http://www.allshakespeare.com/pictures/] (Jan. 2002)

Shakespeare "gifs" (slides, pictures: Chandos portrait etc.) [http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de] (Jan. 2002)

Shakespeare in the Age of Visual Culture:
printed images. introduction, bibliography. [http://www.folger.edu/institute/visual/pmintro.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Edward Hopper,
Shakespeare at Dusk (oil painting, 1935) [http://www.masterpiece-paintings-gallery.com/hopper-shakespeare.htm] (Jan. 2003)


Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I

Contemporary Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (e.g. aged 13 ; Pelican portrait ; Armada ; Ermine) [http://www.tudorhistory.org/elizabeth/gallery.html] (Jan. 2001)
The Faces of Queen Elizabeth I (Hilliard, Zucchero, Christoffel van Sichem, Damley, Isaac Oliver) [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizface.htm]
Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, c. 1592

Olsen, Kristen:
Visual Poetics. The duality inherent in the persona of Elizabeth I between the "body politic" and the "body natural", [http://www.folger.edu/institute/visual/pmabsko.html] (Jan. 2002)

Contemporary (Renaissance) Artists

16th Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain. [http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH16thcentury.html#Northern16] (Jan. 2002)

Art in Renaissance England. [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/literature/artsubj.html] (Jan. 2002)

Gerritsen, Johan.
The Swan Theatre Drawing - a review. De Witt drawing [http://shakespeare.let.uu.nl/swan.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Hilliard, Nicholas (1547-1619) [http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/h/hilliard/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Hilliard, Nicholas (1547-1619) [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hilliard_nicholas.html] (Jan. 2002)
Queen Elizabeth (
Ermine portrait); Young man leaning against a tree [http://www.artunframed.com/hilliard.htm] (Jan. 2002)
The Faces of Queen Elizabeth I [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizface.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Hans Holbein (The Younger) [http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/h/holbein/hans_y/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Hans Holbein (the Younger, 1497-1543) [http://www.artunframed.com/holbein.htm] (Jan. 2002)
Jane Seymour ; Portrait of Henry VIII [http://www.artunframed.com/images/artmis45/hholb84.jpg] (Jan. 2002)

Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton with his cat in the Tower of London, c.1601-1603. Painted by John de Critz the Elder.  [http://www.gorki.net/Art/fa12.html (April 2002)

Tyburn Tree: Executions in Early Modern England [http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/] (May 2002)
Pictures of Executions [http://www.unc.edu/~charliem/pics.htm] (May 2002)

Illustrations to Shakespeare's Works

Emory Shakespeare: 19th Century illustrations to Shakespeare [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html]

Boydell, London 1803. Copperplates with scenes from histories and tragedies, from
King John [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0101.html] to Othello [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0150.html]

38 Victorian engravings from Charles Knight's Imperial Edition of Shakespeare's complete works ("The Works of Shakspere") in English and Dutch. [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/in-engel.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Pre-Raphaelite Ophelias [http://www.wiliqueen.com/ophelia/preraphaelite.html] (last visit: April 02)
Ophelia Page: Pictures and Rimbaud's poem [http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/ophelia/ophelia.html] (last visit: 23/03/00)
Representations of Ophelia [http://www.d.umn.edu/~kmaurer/hamlet/Ophelia.html]

Shakespeare images: images of and related to Shakespeare, public domain.
http://www1.mwc.edu/~wkemp/gallery/shakespeare_images/shakimages1.htm (last visit: 18/02/00)

Tate Gallery, London [http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm], Tate Britain (Preraphaelites) [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/default.htm] (18/05/00)

Theatre
Image Collections online [http://vl-theatre.com/list14.php3]

French prose translation with pictures by Etienne Yver: les 154 sonnets, mis en image par Etienne Yver [http://www.chez.com/shake/]; start with number 1 [http://www.chez.com/shake/sonnet1.html]

Hanna Tomkins, oil paintings, water colours, postcards etc. by Hannah Tomkins The Shakespeare Art Collection Catalogue [http://shakespeare-art-museum.com/Catalog.html] (July 2005

Monuments

The Gower Monument, Stratford. [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobjay99/gowerm.jpg]

The Shakespeare Memorial, (Shakespeare Monument) Stratford [http://www.shakespearetoday.net/shakespearememorial.htm]

Shakespeare's Monument in Stratford (Baconian site) [http://www.clark.net/pub/tross/ws/shaxmon.html] (Jan. 2002)

Leicester Square, London.
Leicester Square, London (picture, on this site)

Shakespeare-Denkmal in Weimar, April 2002 (2 pictures, on this site)
Shakespeare-Denkmal, Weimar [http://www.shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/deutsch/galerie/galeriedenkmal.html]
Park an der Ilm, Weimar. [http://www.weimar-klassik.de/parks/index.html]
"Das einzige
Denkmal Shakespeares auf dem europäischen Festland..." [http://www.jf-archiv.de/archiv99/179aa33.htm]

Edward Hopper,
Shakespeare at Dusk (oil painting, 1935) [http://www.masterpiece-paintings-gallery.com/hopper-shakespeare.htm]



Shakespeare and architecture

Contemporary Architecture

Castles, palaces, stately homes and other architecture (Tudor) [http://www.tudorhistory.org/castles/] (Jan. 2002)

The virtual Renaissance castle [http://renaissance.district96.k12.il.us/Castles/Castles.html] (Jan. 2002)

The Tower of London [http://renaissance.district96.k12.il.us/TowerofLondon/TowerLondon.html] (Jan. 2002)

Theatres

Gerritsen, Johan. The Swan Theatre Drawing - a review. De Witt drawing [http://shakespeare.let.uu.nl/swan.htm]

The Rose Theatre [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/rose/]

Shakespeare and the Globe [http://www.rdg.ac.uk/globe/] (last visit: 22/01/00)
The Globe (3d walk-through model) [http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Globe_Theater.html] for more models see: [http://www.GreatBuildings.com/types/models/models.html] (May 2001)

The Blackfriar's Theatre [http://www.luminarium.org/encyclopedia/blackfriars.htm] (Sept. 2002

Stratford

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust [http://www.stratford.co.uk/birthplace/] (last visit: 22/01/00)

Houses in Stratford [http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/houses/houses.htm] (Jan. 2002)

Holy Trinity Church [http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/soaholtr.htm]

Balz Engler:
"Wallfahrt zum Ort des Dichterkults" (this site)

Architecture in a Shakespearean context


Shakespeare and the Folger: Article on this website http://www.unibas.ch/shine/shine_folger.htm

The Globe in Germany, Neuss:
Festival im Globe. (Juni 2001) [http://www.shakespeare-globe.de] [http://www.neuss.de]

Pré-Catelan et
Jardin Shakespeare, Paris: avec des illustrations végétales des pièces de théâtre de Shakespeare : les landes des sorcières de Macbeth, le bois grec du Songe d'une nuit d'été, les calanques de la Tempête, etc. [http://www.pageszoom.com/pt/sites/htm_fra/reg_pari/paris/16_pcate/acc.htm]

The Shakespeare Country Park in Maruyama, Japan: Birthplace, New place, Mary Arden's cottage (?), village green etc. [http://www.awa.or.jp/home/ogata/town/sc_park/shakspa1.htm] photo of the whole park: [http://www.awa.or.jp/home/ogata/town/sc_park/photo.htm]

The Globe in Tokyo (architect: Arata Isozaki) Matsushita has been a committed sponsor since 1991, encouraging its employees to work as volunteers at the Globe Theatre Company's performances in Osaka. [http://www.matsushita.co.jp/ccd/globe1-e.htm]

The Tsubouchi Theatre Museum of Waseda University. (Shyo Tsubouchi [1859-1935] was the first translator of Shakespeare's complete works into Japanese) [http://www.waseda.ac.jp/enpaku/index-e.html]

Globes in different countries (this site)

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