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



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

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Look, look, a mouse!

King Lear

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

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

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For she his hairy temples then had rounded With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers. A Midsummer Night's Dream A4S1

Artist: https://t.co/MgRjrTlB8r

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Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Tempest

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"Gently entwist; the female ivy so enrings the barks fingers of the elm.
Oh how I love thee!" ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (A4,S1).

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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” Hamlet, Act 4, Sc 5.

Imgs: Picking Daffodils & in the Orchard, both by Harold Harvey, c.1912.

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“O my Mother, Mother!” - Coriolanus (A5,S3).

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"When we are born we cry" ~ King Lear (A4,S6).

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“O wonderful son that can so ‘stonish a mother!”
Hamlet, Act 3, Sc 2.

Elizabeth Mortlock and her son John Mortlock the Younger, painted by John Downman, 1779

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“Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.” - Sonnet 3

The Mirror (Mother and Child) by Mary Cassatt

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Miranda (1916) by John William Waterhouse (GB, 1849-1917). From 'The Tempest'.

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Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood
(Henry VI )

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"Is not that a brave man?" ~ Troilus & Cressida (A1,S2).

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"With fearful bravery, thinking by this face
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage" ~ Julius Caesar (A5,S1).

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"Spread o'er the silver waves ..." ~ Comedy of Errors (A3,S2).

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