Charles Robinson's illustrations to the sonnets of William Shakespeare

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He hath eaten me out of house and home; he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of his.

2 Henry IV

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Two rare chances to catch Socks Do Shakespeare (for the first time since our 2017 tour). Both in rural Gloucestershire in October:
11th October - Newnham Club GL14 1BS https://t.co/i1bgraxUl0
12th October - Winstone Village Hall GL7 https://t.co/SSlEXpOg8n

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude..

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Alas, the storm is come again!

- Tempest [II, 2]

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Good morning and welcome to another Today's theme: THE WEATHER

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To be, or not to be - that is the question.
(Hamlet 3.1)


(Credit on pic)

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On the bat's back I do fly
Tempest V, 1
Art: Paul Woodroffe

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Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd.
Henry IV part 2
Act IV Scene 1
Art: Andrey Shiskin.

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O excellent! I love long life better than figs.
Anthony and Cleopatra A1S2

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How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day.
Sonnet 43
Art: Edouard Bisson

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The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.
- Cymbeline A4S2

🎨The Nightmare Henry Fuseli

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When I waked, I cried to dream again.

The Tempest

Pic: The Four Arts (Dance, Music, Painting & Poetry), Mucha.

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“Oh, swear not by the the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” Romeo & Juliet, Act 2, Sc 2 Jasmine is a flower of the moon. Illust: c.1940 by Cicely Mary Barker

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Making it momentary as a sound,
Swift as a shadow,
short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night;

A Midsummers Night's Dream
Or
The Love Life of Spurt Hammond

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The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a votaress of my order:
And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she gossip'd by my side.
MND Act II Scene 1
Img: Titania & the Indian Boy
Joseph Noel Paton.

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'The armour that I saw in your tent to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?
Stars my lord.
Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.'
HV

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I have bedimm’d
The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds,
And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war—The Tempest

Rough Sea at Etretat by Claude Monet via

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I am thy father's spirit,
Doom'd for a certain time to walk the night,
And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
Are burnt and purg'd away.

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