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"Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call"
#WBYeats🤍An Acre of Grass🌱 1937
Myself must I remake✨
🎨Timon, and Lear by #ArtušScheiner c1880
#TimonofAthens #KingLear
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Jun 13
“I remember Goethe's comment.."Would #Shakespeare be able to develop now?" Because there wasn't any criticism in Shakespeare's day. He just did another play and another. If he'd been analysing all the plays, what would that have done?” #DavidHockney🤍
🎨Play within a Play 1963🌈
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🎨Poster for #Shakespeare The Globe & The World exhibition at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art 1981 by #DavidHockney🤍🕯
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“Where the bee sucks, there suck I..”
Ariel’s Song #TheTempest
🐝A violet carpenter bee today in the lamb’s ears🐑 Such beautiful inky wings💜✨
And 🎨Ariel Among the Flowers #LauraValentine 1882💛
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'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows..”
Oberon🧚 #MidsummerNightsDream
“I have finally discovered the true colour of the atmosphere. It’s violet. Fresh air is violet.” #Monet
🎨The Artist's Garden at Giverny 1900💜Heaven
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🎨Sounds And Sweet Airs That Give Delight
by #ScottMcKowen 2019💚
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds & sweet airs, that give delight, & hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears..”
Caliban #TheTempest
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🎨Juno🦚 Ceres🌾 and the Masque of the Nymphs and Reaper illustration from #TheTempest by #PaulVincentWoodroffe 1908💕
[‘Enter certain reapers, properly habited. They join with the nymphs in a graceful dance..’💃🏻👨🏻🌾🌼]
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May 31
“When Auden’s lectures on #Shakespeare were delivered at the New School NY 1946, they caused such a sensation that one member of staff is reported to have said it was almost as if Shakespeare were giving lectures on Auden”📕Lectures on Shakespeare
🎨W.H.Auden by Don Bachardy '67
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May 30
“There they hoist us
To cry to th’ sea that roared to us, to sigh
To th’ winds”🌬 #TheTempest
🎨Beautiful take on Prospero & (little) Miranda #HenryThomson 1803💙🌕 Could be called Prospero’s Despair! A painted explanation for his vengeance 12 years on where the play begins..🌊
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May 29
“Too hot, too hot!” #Shakespeare's Leontes
☀️!😮💨C’est trop! as they say here🍹
🎨From the summery side of #TheWintersTale, Florizel🐆and Perdita 🌸by Mary F. Raphael c1900
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May 28
“To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish
Is wasteful & ridiculous excess"
Salisbury #KingJohn
🎨Lilies #WalterCrane 1893🤍
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May 27
🎨Fairy Costumes by C. Wilhelm for A #MidsummerNightsDream at Princes Theatre Manchester in the late 1890s🧚♀️🧚🧚🏼♂️🧚♀️
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May 26
Press night for #TheTempest with #KennethBranagh at The RSC🎭📰 “The hour's now come;
The very minute bids thee ope thine ear…”
🎨Critics by E. and S. Woodbury📝 and #EdwinAustinAbbey‘s Prospero and Ariel🌬🤍
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May 25
🎨Midsummer Night's Fairies🧚🏼John George Naish c1856
"I must go seek some dewdrops here
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.."🌼
#MidsummerNightsDream💛
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May 24
Thank you @RmjBooks🤍for this incidental music for #Cymbeline 🎼👇🏼 'Song of Cloten'
🎨Charles Farley as Cloten by Thomas Woolnoth 1821 & Imogen⚔️by Herbert Gustave Schmalz 1888
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🎨#Cymbeline’s Imogen sleeping💤🌹🪟
by Alfred Joseph Woolmer c1840
And the exquisite Cymbeline stained glass of @EricMauroSG 💙❤️💚💛 #StainedGlassSunday☀️
“The benediction of these covering heavens
Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy
To inlay heaven with stars.”
— from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
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May 23
🎨Boatswain: “Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king?”🌬️ by #WalterCrane gutenberg.org/cache/epub/234… will show you all beautiful eight illustrations he did for #TheTempest🌊
And👇🏼a king & a magician at The RSC💙💫
📸Simon Hadley
This evening our Patron, His Majesty the King, attended a performance of The Tempest in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ✨
ALT His Majesty the King at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. HIs Majesty looks at costumes, with RSC Co-Artistic Directors Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans.
ALT His Majesty the King at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, meeting Kenneth Branagh who is playing the role of Prospero in The Tempest, directed by Richard Eyre.
ALT His Majesty the King at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, meeting the cast of Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Richard Eyre.
ALT His Majesty the King at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. HIs Majesty looks at costumes and shakes hands with an RSC staff member.
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May 22
#Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot, The Ban on Love 🤍🙅🏻♀️1836 was directly inspired by #Shakespeare’s #MeasureForMeasure⚖️
🎨Isabella appealing to Angelo by William Hamilton 1793 and Illustration for Ban on Love’e score by Franz Stassen 1922
m.youtube.com/watch?v=exC-Y9…
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May 21
🎨Heath Robinson from his exquisite 1914 illustrated edition of A #MidsummerNightsDream🧚🏼♀️
And an overview of his #Shakespeare illustrations below👇🏼thank you David🤍 @The_Bardolater🦢💫
May 21
Here’s a nice overview of Heath Robinson’s Shakespeare illustrations: folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare…
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