Shakespeare, William

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  1. baptism-icon
    April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon
  2. May 3, 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon
  3. Schriftsteller, Schauspieler

Iconography

The Chandos portrait, likely depicting Shakespeare, c. 1611 (Source: Wikimedia)
John Shakespeare's house, believed to be Shakespeare's birthplace, in Stratford-upon-Avon (Source: Wikimedia)
Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name.[c] (Source: Wikimedia)
Shakespeare's funerary monument in Stratford-upon-Avon (Source: Wikimedia)
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was baptised and is buried (Source: Wikimedia)
Shakespeare's grave, next to those of Anne Shakespeare, his wife, and Thomas Nash, the husband of his granddaughter (Source: Wikimedia)
Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays by an unknown 19th-century artist (Source: Wikimedia)
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing. By William Blake, c. 1786. (Source: Wikimedia)
Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus, and the Ghost of Hamlet's Father. Henry Fuseli, 1780–1785. (Source: Wikimedia)
The Plays of William Shakespeare, a painting containing scenes and characters from several plays of Shakespeare; by Sir John Gilbert, c. 1849 (Source: Wikimedia)
The reconstructed Globe Theatre on the south bank of the River Thames in London (Source: Wikimedia)
Title page of the First Folio, 1623. Copper engraving of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout. (Source: Wikimedia)
Title page from 1609 edition of Shake-Speares Sonnets (Source: Wikimedia)
Pity by William Blake, 1795, is an illustration of two similes in Macbeth: "And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd Upon the sightless couriers of the air."[206] (Source: Wikimedia)
Macbeth Consulting the Vision of the Armed Head. By Henry Fuseli, 1793–1794. (Source: Wikimedia)
William Ordway Partridge's garlanded statue of William Shakespeare in Lincoln Park, Chicago, typical of many created in the 19th and early 20th centuries (Source: Wikimedia)
Artistic depiction of the Shakespeare family, late 19th century (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1817 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1817 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, 1801/1850 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Payne, Albert Henry - 1841/1880 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Müller, F. (1824) - 1824 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des W. Shakspeare, Massol - 1801/1831 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1817 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Johann Friedrich Bolt - 1817 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Thomas Fairland - 1828 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des William Shakespeare, Josef Anton Selb - 1800/1832 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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