The World of William Shakespeare by ~dramamasks22
Anthony and Cleopatra: Cleopatra’s Egyptian headdress
Hamlet: Hamlet’s father’s ghost (wearing a crown) and the famous skull in hand (not to be comfused with the grim reaper who also makes an apppearance because, come on, it’s not really Shakespeare without death of some sort)
King Lear: Poison drops into the ear (This is one of the more “artist” ones that may be harder to spot. Directly under the Hamlet hand and skull, you will see the edge of a bottle pouring our drops. Follow the drops past the bridge and you will see that the trail stops on a…funky shape I guess…in front of the shield. That funky shape is an ear. Underneath it is the ear canal until you hit the spiral, which is meant to be the ear drum. Thought that was cooler than drawing a scale model of an ear drum.)
Romeo and Juliet: The beginning of the balcony scene (my favorite Shakespearean play and scene)
All’s Well That Ends Well: Two intertwining wedding rings
As You Like It: The beginning of a love poem on parchment paper
Comedy of Errors: the optical illusion of “Is a cup or two faces?” (this tying into the theme of mistaken identity)
Othello: Desdemona’s handkerchief with strawberries on it
Love Labour’s Lost: a heart (this one was hard…so it was given one of those commonly used symbols; but in this picture, it will specifically represent this work)
Measure for Measure: a cross (again, hard to pin point a specific item)
Merchant of Venice: an arch/ walk way bridge commonly seen in Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor: a laundry baskey that has toppled over
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The love-in-idleness flower and fairies following Titania and Nick Bottom (who has the head of a donkey)
Much Ado About Nothing: party masks (tying back in to that mistaken identity theme)
Taming of the Shrew: the smashed lute
The Tempest: an island
Twelfth Night: Okay, I will explain this one. Towards the bottom left, you will see a man and a woman staring at each other. This is actually the same person! Whoa! Yes, it is Viola. On one side, she is disguised as Cesario. She is then looking at her reflection to see herself, Viola (as a woman versus a disguised man).
Two Gentlemen of Verona: a forest. The one on the far right.
A Winter’s Tale: a tree, half alive in summer and half dead in a snowy winter.
King John: the throne
Richard II: the knight and lance for a jousting tournament
Henry IV: the castle
Henry V: the sword
Henry VI: the red rose of lancaster connected to the white rose of york (yes I know it is all black and white, but they look different, okay?)
Richard III: the dark, hunchbacked, shadowy figure
Henry VIII: there is a small “portrait” of each of them, but, rather than showing their face, I drew in a picture to represent their fate based on the popular rhyme “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.”
Titus Andronicus: a dagger and blood (for the son’s head being cut off. See, told it’s not Shakespeare unless someone is dead.)
Julius Caesar: in the stars, there is a constellation symbol for pisces. (This would have been the constellation symbol of March 15th. Aka the ides of march)
Macbeth: the witches’ cauldron