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Shakesprints Greeting cards and fine art prints derived from family heirloom antique illustrations of William Shakespeare’s plays.

KING LEAR. Act 3 Scene 2. Shakespeare Rare Print Collection. Eaton, Seymour (ED). Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co., 1900...
07/03/2023

KING LEAR. Act 3 Scene 2.
Shakespeare Rare Print Collection. Eaton, Seymour (ED). Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co., 1900. Connoisseur Edition, issued for subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare and The Review of Reviews.

HAMLET. Act 5 Scene 1. Shakespeare Rare Print Collection. Eaton, Seymour (ED). Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co., 1900. C...
06/03/2023

HAMLET. Act 5 Scene 1.
Shakespeare Rare Print Collection. Eaton, Seymour (ED). Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co., 1900. Connoisseur Edition, issued for subscribers to The Eversley Shakespeare and The Review of Reviews.

“Those hands, which you so clapt, go now, and wringYou Britaines brave; for done are Shakespeares dayes :His dayes are d...
14/07/2022

“Those hands, which you so clapt, go now, and wring
You Britaines brave; for done are Shakespeares dayes :
His dayes are done, that made the dainty Playes,
Which made the Globe of heav'n and earth to ring.”

—Dedication in the First Folio, 1623

PAULINAO Hermione,As every present time doth boast itselfAbove a better gone, so must thy graveGive way to what's seen n...
26/05/2022

PAULINA
O Hermione,
As every present time doth boast itself
Above a better gone, so must thy grave
Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
Have said and writ so, but your writing now
Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse
Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
To say you have seen a better.

— The Winter’s Tale (A5S1)

Illustration from 1909 by Arthur Rackham

PAULINAO Hermione,As every present time doth boast itselfAbove a better gone, so must thy graveGive way to what's seen n...
15/05/2022

PAULINA
O Hermione,
As every present time doth boast itself
Above a better gone, so must thy grave
Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself
Have said and writ so, but your writing now
Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,
Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse
Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,
To say you have seen a better.

— The Winter’s Tale (A5S1)

Illustration from 1909 by Arthur Rackham

SHEPARDHeavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with thingsdying, I with th...
10/04/2022

SHEPARD
Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,
boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things
dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for
thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's
child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy;
open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be
rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:
open't. What's within, boy?

— The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (A3S3)

Illustration from 1878 by H. C. Selous.

DERCETASI say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.OCTAVIUS CAESARThe breaking of so great a thing should makeA greater crack: the ...
06/03/2022

DERCETAS
I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony
Is not a single doom; in the name lay
A moiety of the world.

— Anthony and Cleopatra (A5S1)

Illustration from 1862 by John Gilbert.

Re-enter Guiderius with Cloten’s head. GUIDERIUSThis Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;There was no money in't: not Herc...
27/02/2022

Re-enter Guiderius with Cloten’s head.
GUIDERIUS
This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;
There was no money in't: not Hercules
Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:
Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne
My head as I do his.
BELARIUS
What hast thou done?
GUIDERIUS
I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,
Son to the queen, after his own report;
Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore
With his own single hand he'ld take us in
Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,
And set them on Lud's-town.

— Cymbeline (A4S2) by William Shakespeare.

Illustration from 1878 by H. C. Selous.

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CLEOPATRANay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,Then was the time ...
06/02/2022

CLEOPATRA
Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,
But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,
Then was the time for words: no going then;
Eternity was in our lips and eyes,
Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,
But was a race of heaven: they are so still,
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,
Art turn'd the greatest liar.
MARK ANTONY
How now, lady!
CLEOPATRA
I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know
There were a heart in Egypt.
MARK ANTONY
Hear me, queen:
The strong necessity of time commands
Our services awhile; but my full heart
Remains in use with you. Our Italy
Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius
Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:
Equality of two domestic powers
Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,
Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,
Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,
Into the hearts of such as have not thrived
Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;
And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge
By any desperate change.

— Anthony and Cleopatra (A2S3)

Illustration from 1878 by H. C. Selous

PORTIA.The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twic...
30/01/2022

PORTIA.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

— The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (A4S1)

Illustration from 1862 by John Gilbert

PUCK.Thou speak'st aright;I am that merry wanderer of the night.I jest to Oberon and make him smileWhen I a fat and bean...
23/01/2022

PUCK.
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there.

— A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (A2S1)

Illustration from 1908 by Arthur Rackham.

SoothsayerCaesar!CAESARHa! who calls?CASCABid every noise be still: peace yet again!CAESARWho is it in the press that ca...
15/03/2021

Soothsayer
Caesar!
CAESAR
Ha! who calls?
CASCA
Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
CAESAR
Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
What man is that?
BRUTUS
A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
Set him before me; let me see his face.
CASSIUS
Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
CAESAR
What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer
Beware the ides of March.
CAESAR
He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.

— Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (A1S2)

Illustration from 1925 by Ernst Stern.

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