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The quote from Macbeth that reads
"look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
never seems to lose its relevance...


Art self

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2021-05-30

I always loved John Waterhouse for loving the Bard’s smart, female characters: Miranda, Ophelia, Cleopatra, & Juliet. He didn’t drown them in Elizabethan fashion either, but painted them in a Victorian alchemy of bohemian beauty, & assured selfhood. ☺️❤️

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2021-05-24

"And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name" (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

🖼️ Edmund Dulac "Beauty Saw the Castle in the Distance" (1910)

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2021-05-16

“The best actors in the world,”
Hamlet (II,2)

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2021-05-16

And yet we ventur'd, for the gain propos'd ... " ~ Henry IV, Pt 2 (A1S1).

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2021-05-09

"To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores" ~ The Winter's Tale (A4,S4).

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2021-05-09

"Be suffering what it may, Time will bring summer,
When shall have leaves, as well as thorns,
And be as sweet as sharp."

🌹 All's Well That Ends Well

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2021-04-26

“And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain,
And hate the idle pleasures of these days.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

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2021-04-25

From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April dress’d in all his trim
Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,
That heavy Saturn laugh’d and leap’d with him.
Sonnet 98
Ida Bohatta c1930’s

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2021-04-25

PROSPERO

A grace it had, devouring.

3.3 The Tempest

Mermaid 💙 Howard Pyle 🇺🇸

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2021-04-25

“The king is to be feared as the lion”
Henry IV, Part 1 3.2

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2021-04-11

“So Painted to Make her Fair”
(Two Gentlemen of Verona A2 S1)
“Maybe She Doth but Counterfeit”
(Much Ado About Nothing A2 S3)
Art by Rosalind Lyons, inspired by Shakespeare’s plays. She was formerly Artist in Residence at the Globe https://t.co/VTDoxJ2qGk

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2021-04-11

Her words are done, her woes are more increasing;
The time is spent, her object will away,
And from her twining arms doth urge releasing.
'Pity,' she cries, 'some favour, some remorse!'
Away he springs and hasteth to his horse.

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2021-04-11

“Exit, pursued by a bear” (The Winter’s Tale)



🖼️ P.P. Sokolov "General Toptygin" (1875)

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2021-04-11

Look, look, a mouse!

King Lear

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2021-04-11

He that trusts to you,
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;
Where foxes, geese:
Coriolanus [I, 1]

Jackie Morris; Hare and Fox

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2021-04-11

"Why, my horse, my love, my horse." ~ Henry IV, Pt.1
(A2,S3).

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2021-04-11

“To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.”
Henry VIII, Act 3, Sc 1

Img: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, 1920s

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2021-04-04

For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty,
And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night:
Passionate Pilgrim

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2021-04-04