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- Title:
Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays
- Former Title(s):
A Procession of Shakespeare Characters [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
- Date:
- ca. 1840
- Medium:
- Oil on board
- Dimensions:
- 12 1/4 x 54 1/4 inches (31.1 x 137.8 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.5.26
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1975.5.26FR
- Subject Terms:
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, play by William Shakespeare | actors | All's Well that Ends Well, play by William Shakespeare | As You Like It, play by William Shakespeare | costume | dog (animal) | frieze (ornamental band) | Hamlet, play by William Shakespeare | Henry VI, part I by William Shakespeare | Henry VI, part II by William Shakespeare | literary theme | love | lovers | Macbeth, play by William Shakespeare | men | Much Ado About Nothing, play by William Shakespeare | obese | panel (wood) | plays | procession | romance | Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor, play by William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew, play by William Shakespeare | The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, play by William Shakespeare | The Two Gentlemen of Verona, play by William Shakespeare | theater (discipline) | tragedies | Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, play by William Shakespeare | women
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Sir Andrew Aguecheek (character in Twelfth Night)
Crab
Sir John Falstaff
Lady Macbeth (character in Macbeth)
Rosalind (character in As You Like It)
Doll Tearsheet
Ophelia (character in Hamlet)
Desdemona (character in Othello)
Titania (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Romeo (character in Romeo and Juliet)
Benedick
Beatrice
Parolles
Malvolio (character in Twelfth Night)
Katharine (character in The Taming of the Shrew)
Valentine
Launce (character in The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Othello (character in Othello, the Moor of Venice)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Sir Toby Belch (character in Twelfth Night)
Maria (character in Twelfth Night)
Bottom (character in A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Proteus
Celia
Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), queen of England, consort of Henry VI
Juliet (character in Romeo and Juliet) - Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:235
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Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 40-41, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]