Beautiful Shakespeare-related Art🤍 MA from Stratford’s Shakespeare Institute 🦢 English🌹🏴Bruxelloise🇧🇪In the Val-d'Oise🇫🇷 ☕️✍🏻
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“Having spent so much of my life with #Shakespeare's world, passions & ideas in my head & in my mouth he feels like a friend, someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine” #PatrickStewart🕯️
🎭As Prospero, Mariah Gale as Miranda @TheRSC 2006 📷Manuel Harlan
🎨What’s Done Cannot Be Undone - Sarah Bernhardt as Lady #Macbeth by Ken Smith🤍
“After extensive searching I acquired three tiny photos of Ms. Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth and the painting is based upon these postage stamp-size pictures..” kensmithfineart.com/whats-do…
“What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.” - Roy T. Bennett
#sundayinspiration #moveon #keepmovingforward #progresstracking #roytbennett #christophersamaan
🎨#RomeoAndJuliet by Ford Madox Brown 1869❤️
“A thousand times good night”
“A thousand times the worse to want thy light..”
📘The Songs and Sonnets of #Shakespeare illustrated by Charles Robinson 1915💙🌹
🎨'My Mistress' Brows are Raven Black'
by Charles Robinson, in The Songs and Sonnets of Shakespeare 1915 From #Sonnet127👩🏻 #TheShakespeareSonnets💕
“You are doubtless acquainted with the works of #Shakespeare, and his remarks about the unimportance of the nomenclature of roses? This case is the same." #AgathaChristie The Secret of Chimneys 1925
🎨A Rose by Any Other Name🌹William Lee Hankey 1896
📸Spotted🕵🏻♀️📒☎️
"...the most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is...” Dogberry #MuchAdo
🎨Dogberry by #EdwinAustinAbbey c1897 🤍
and a Peter Falk self-portrait as Columbo🕵🏼♂️
“I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak: Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed: Take not away the taper, leave it burning…
Sleep hath seized me wholly” Imogen #Cymbeline
🎨Imogen's Bed Chamber💤 #NormanMillsPrice 1905
“Matilda’s father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle & of which he was exceedingly proud. “Good strong hair,” he was fond of saying,“means there’s a good strong brain underneath.”
“Like #Shakespeare” Matilda once said to him. “Like who?” #RoaldDahlDay🤍
“Words, words, words.”
🎨Van Dyck’s Portrait of John Suckling 1638 holding #Shakespeare’s First Folio, open at #Hamlet📕
“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little”✨ #TomStoppard
via @mvalliant306🤍✨
“Defending the family farm..is like defending the Bill of Rights or the Sermon on the Mount or #Shakespeare's plays. One is amazed at the necessity for defense, and yet one gladly agrees..” #WendellBerry🤍
🎨Palmer’s Farm aka Mary Arden’s Cottage
by #PaulBraddon c1890👩🏻🌾
🎨As You Like It 🦋 by #ScottMcKowen🤍
“A cat walks by and shakes #Shakespeare off of his back.” Charles Bukowski
🎨Study of a cat walking 🐈⬛ Theophile Steinlen
"And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school..”🎒#AsYouLikeIt
🎨#ThomasStothard’s SchoolBoy from #Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man Illustrated, engraved by William Bromley 1799
“I found myself before Drury Lane Theatre. The play was Macbeth - the first actor of the age was there to exert his powers to drug with irreflection the auditors..”
#MaryShelley📕in The Last Man 1826
🎨William Charles Macready as that #Macbeth🏴 by George Clint, & John Jackson
Final performance of #Chekhov’s final play tonight @TheRSC🌸as the sound of the axe approaches summer’s end🌞“Goodbye old life” “Hello new life..”
📷#JohanPersson capturing #KennethBranagh as Lopakhin whose exterior lightness & joviality can be turned on a coin with one look🪓
“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.” - Frederick Douglass
#saturdaythoughts #work #circumstances #frederickdouglass #christophersamaan
Loved #TheCherryOrchard @TheRSC Saw it in July. Beautiful, moving, funny, with superb surprises..🛏️! & to hear #Chekhov’s Lopakhin say “Get thee to a nunnery” when Lopakhin is #KennethBranagh is 🤯🤍 Branagh, as always, delivers a masterclass🌸 J’adore✨
🎭📷#JohanPersson
The Swan Theatre bar @TheRSC Stratford-upon-Avon🦢
#StainedGlassSunday🪟🎭💙❤️💛
