Harvard Theatre Collection Shakespeare fantasy prints

Contains prints depicting scenes inspired by William Shakespeare’s plays, not relating to actual productions of said plays. Many of the prints were published by Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, which aimed to produce illustrated edition and folios of Shakespeare’s works from 1786 to 1804. Most of these prints are engravings. The files that contain only prints published by Boydell Shakespeare Gallery are noted in the file titles. Another group of prints were created by Edward A. Wilson, an illustrator who created a Shakespeare-inspired calendar of prints from 1937-1938. Plays portrayed by the artists include: All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Hamlet, Henry IV Parts I and II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I-III, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love’s Labour’s lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merrry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Winter’s Tale.