4 Williams - Shakespeare & Cowper by Blake for Hayley from 18 Heads of the Poets by William Blake for Hayley's house at Felpham in Sussex

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Happy Birthday Shakespeare! We owe some of our extraordinary paintings to his plays. From Macbeth to Twelfth Night and Richard III, you can see depictions of Shakespearean scenes at Petworth

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'Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays' by an unknown 19th-century artist

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🌷"O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away."

🌷The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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"this news
which is called true is so like an old tale, that
the verity of it is in strong suspicion"

WT 5.2 Happy Easter everyone.

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"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life"

R&J
(At the time, this was a pun, I promise)

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When he is best he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst he is little better than a beast.
1.2

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"In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow"

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This weekend's theme has been chosen by : MONSTERS & VILLAINS!

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Viola - Twelfth Night 1:2
"What country, friends, is this?"

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"Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn." Romeo and Juliet

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"here comes my sister, reading." - As You Like It (A3, S2)

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Brand new process pic from for No Holds Bard: The First Folio! Take a look at this beauty!

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste.
Sonnet 30

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The fire and cracks
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble;
Yea, his dread trident shake
The Tempest

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Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.

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"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest." Much Ado About Nothing (A4, S1)

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