Beautiful Shakespeare-related Art🤍 MA from Stratford’s Shakespeare Institute 🦢 English🌹🏴Bruxelloise🇧🇪In the Val-d'Oise🇫🇷 ☕️✍🏻
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#Shakespeare has served me best. Few living friends have had upon me an influence so strong for good as Hamlet or Rosalind.” #RobertLouisStevenson #RLSDay💫
🎨John Philip Kemble as #Hamlet by Thomas Lawrence 1801💀 & Rosalind by Henry Nelson O'Neil 1856💌🍂
"#Shakespeare, the only realist who ever succeeded! that is who reached the clear design & force of the ideal & yet carried along with him the bulk & lineament, freshness, colour & brute imprint, of actual detail" #RobertLouisStevenson
🎨RLS & His Wife by #JohnSingerSargent 1885
🎨Hall's Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon by James Vinciguerra🏡
The places that connect us most directly to Shakespeare's world are not immune to time's effects. Hall's Croft has been added to Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register. A worrying development, but perhaps also a call to action. @ShakespeareBT
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6y9…
“There's rosemary, that's for #remembrance
pray you, love, remember”🌺 Ophelia #Hamlet
🎨 Ophelia by #OdilonRedon
🎨🪶🦅Great Cormorant by the incredible #MissyDunaway illustrator of an "evolving collection aiming to catalogue every bird mentioned in #Shakespeare's plays and poems - at least 65 species"🤍
🥚birdsofshakespeare.com
🎨Shakespeare writing Hamlet💀by René Bull 1936🐈⬛
🕷️🕸️#HalloweenShakespeare🎃🍭🧡
“Having spent so much of my life with #Shakespeare's world, passions & ideas in my head & in my mouth he feels like a friend, someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine” #PatrickStewart🕯️
🎭As Prospero, Mariah Gale as Miranda @TheRSC 2006 📷Manuel Harlan
🎨What’s Done Cannot Be Undone - Sarah Bernhardt as Lady #Macbeth by Ken Smith🤍
“After extensive searching I acquired three tiny photos of Ms. Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth and the painting is based upon these postage stamp-size pictures..” kensmithfineart.com/whats-do…
“What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.” - Roy T. Bennett
#sundayinspiration #moveon #keepmovingforward #progresstracking #roytbennett #christophersamaan
🎨#RomeoAndJuliet by Ford Madox Brown 1869❤️
“A thousand times good night”
“A thousand times the worse to want thy light..”
📘The Songs and Sonnets of #Shakespeare illustrated by Charles Robinson 1915💙🌹
🎨'My Mistress' Brows are Raven Black'
by Charles Robinson, in The Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare 1915 From #Sonnet127👩🏻 #TheShakespeareSonnets💕
“You are doubtless acquainted with the works of #Shakespeare, and his remarks about the unimportance of the nomenclature of roses? This case is the same." #AgathaChristie The Secret of Chimneys 1925
🎨A Rose by Any Other Name🌹William Lee Hankey 1896
📸Spotted🕵🏻♀️📒☎️
"...the most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is...” Dogberry #MuchAdo
🎨Dogberry by #EdwinAustinAbbey c1897 🤍
and a Peter Falk self-portrait as Columbo🕵🏼♂️
“I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak: Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed: Take not away the taper, leave it burning…
Sleep hath seized me wholly” Imogen #Cymbeline
🎨Imogen's Bed Chamber💤 #NormanMillsPrice 1905
“Matilda’s father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle & of which he was exceedingly proud. “Good strong hair,” he was fond of saying,“means there’s a good strong brain underneath.”
“Like #Shakespeare” Matilda once said to him. “Like who?” #RoaldDahlDay🤍
“Words, words, words.”
🎨Van Dyck’s Portrait of John Suckling 1638 holding #Shakespeare’s First Folio, open at #Hamlet📕
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little”✨ #TomStoppard
via @mvalliant306🤍✨
“Defending the family farm..is like defending the Bill of Rights or the Sermon on the Mount or #Shakespeare's plays. One is amazed at the necessity for defense, and yet one gladly agrees..” #WendellBerry🤍
🎨Palmer’s Farm aka Mary Arden’s Cottage
by #PaulBraddon c1890👩🏻🌾
🎨As You Like It 🦋 by #ScottMcKowen🤍
