Beerbohm Tree’s Silent Macbeth (1916)
In 1916, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree made a silent film of “Macbeth,” now lost…
Read MoreOphelia at the moment of death, by Millais
Ophelia, weirdly alive at the moment of death, by Sir John Everett Millais (1851), Tate Britain
Read MoreBurning Man: Hilliard’s Man Against Flames
“The flames seemed to flicker and hiss”: Man against Flames, by Nicholas Hilliard (c. 1588), V&A, London
Read MoreElizabeth I, the Folger’s “Sieve” Portrait
“A face capable of both greatness and cruelty”: Queen Elizabeth I, the Plimpton “Sieve” Portrait at the Folger Shakespeare Library
Read MoreShakespeare’s Faces
Everyone knows Shakespeare’s iconic portrait from the First Folio (1623), but there are others…
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