Shakespeare Weekend

Volume Three of The Plays of Shakespeare published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in the mid to late 1860s finishes off the set with a collection of Shakespeare’s tragedies and The Story of Shakespeare’s Life written by editors Charles (1787-1877) and Mary Cowden Clark (1809-1898). Similarly to Cowden Clark’s annotations, The Story of Shakespeare’s Life is written for an audience new to Shakespeare and is a thorough account of his life, heralding him as a “shining example to the whole human brotherhood”.  

Englishman Henry Courtney (H.C.) Selous (1803-1890) illustrated all three volumes with his distinctive attention to minute detail and dense landscapes. Following his father’s portrait and miniature painting career, Selous attended the Royal Academy in 1818 where he exhibited his first work Portrait of a Favourite Cat. Twenty-two years later he would switch gears into historical painting and never look back. His illustrations for The Plays of Shakespeare add an emotive visual layer to the plays, benefiting young and novice readers who may not have experienced Shakespeare in a theatre.  

The Plays of Shakespeare are a collected edition of the serialization of plays originally published in one of Cassell, Petter, & Galpin’s weekly papers over the course of many years. Met with great success, some seventeen editions have been published. Our early copy is half-bound in red leather with Shakespeare’s portrait embossed in gold on the cover. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

Discus elbow smash

◊ TOM

◊ ANGEL

◊ BEN JONSON

◊ FRANCIS BACON

◊ SHAKESPEAREAN

◊ JEFF

◊ MARK

◊ EARNEST

◊ DICK

◊ SUSANNA

◊ YOUNG SHAKESPEARE

◊ REMARK

◊ MR. JUSTICE

◊ RICHARD H. DANA

◊ BRET HARTE

◊ HARRY

◊ MAY ASSUME

◊ YOUNG SHAKESPEARE'S

◊ LORD ELDON

◊ ANNE HATHAWAY

◊ PROFESSOR OSBORN

◊ SIR THOMAS LUCY

◊ RICHARD GRANT WHITE

◊ GRACE

◊ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

◊ LORD CAMPBELL

◊ SIR THOMAS LUCY'S

◊ MR. BARCLAY

◊ CHARLES

◊ MR. SIDNEY LEE

◊ SIR THOMAS

◊ ANNE WHATELEY

◊ FLETCHER

◊ SENATOR DAVIS

◊ MARY COWDEN CLARKE

◊ NELSON

◊ LEE

◊ LOUIS

◊ CLAY

◊ BLOSSOM

Efemérides literarias: 22 de junio

Nacimientos 1425: Lucrecia Tornabuoni, poetisa y noble italiana (f. 1482). 1738: Jacques Delille, poeta francés (f. 1813). 1805: Juan Arolas, escritor español (f. 1849). 1809: Mary Cowden Clarke, escritora británica (f. 1898). 1856: H. Rider Haggard, novelista británico (f. 1925). 1898: Erich Maria Remarque, escritor germano-estadounidense (f. 1970). 1913: Sándor Weöres, poeta húngaro (f.…

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Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal - Joan of Arc (1412-31) illustration from World Noted Women by Mary Cowden Clarke 1858.

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MANY HAPPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY! A BIRTHDAY BOOK by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke (London: Lockwood, c.1869) Coer designed by W.H. Rogers.

Fotocamera frontale - fotocamera retrale

Thy praises, Autumn will we sing! Thou, ruddy as thy ruby wine; Compared with thee, how pale the Spring, Thy coloring how richly fine.

Ripe golden corn and purple grape, With peach and apple's rosy cheek, Combining hue with grace of shape, Who shall their beauties fitly speak?

The eye, the taste, thou dost rejoice; To love thee, Autumn, who can fail? Then let us pledge thee, heart and voice, In loving cup, thine own bright ale.

Autumn by Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke

Pocahontas as depicted in World Noted Women, 1883

Hamlet and Ophelia

Painted by J D Watson, engraved by S Smith

Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1)Hamlet: "I loved you not." Ophelia:" I was the more deceived."

Cowden-Clarke, Charles and Mary, eds. The Plays of William Shakespeare. The Tragedies.

Illustrator: H.C. Selous. London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co.

c. 1830.

Shakespeare Weekend

The Plays of Shakespeare was published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., likely in the late 1860s or early 1870s and consists of three volumes each arranging the plays into comedies, histories, and tragedies with many illustrations as Cassell's Illustrated Shakespeare. Englishman John Cassell (1817-1865) was a tea and coffee merchant who pivoted into publishing in 1848 with the weekly newspaper The Standard of Freedom and expanded to the Illustrated Family Paper in 1853. When Cassell was unexpectedly called to pay back an advancement to his paper supplier, he turned to printing firm partners George Petter (1823-1888) and Thomas Galpin (1828-1910) for financial support. The three men went into a full partnership in 1859 and found great success in publishing illustrated editions of classic literature, including the popular Illustrated Family Bible. 

It is from their illustration craze that The Plays of Shakespeare was born. Edited and annotated by Charles (1787-1877) and Mary Cowden Clark (1809-1898) and illustrated with wood engravings from drawings by H.C. Selous (1803-1890), the three-volume collection is brimming with detailed illustrations of the plays geared toward families and young readers. Volume Two contains Shakespeare’s historical plays. 

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

and swerving legend

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Third edition, vol. 1 (London, 1744) : xxxiv BL copy, recent scan (March 11, 2020) 4 ex Sermon on the Epistle for the twenty-third Sunday after Trinity, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer... to which is prefixed A Memoir of the Bishop; by John Watkins. Vol 2 (of 2; London, 1824) : 183 5 ex Introduction to Canto Second, of “Marmion,” in The Works of Walter Scott, Esq., vol. 84 (Pocket Library of English Classics, No. 118; Zwickau, 1825) : 48 6 OCR cross-column misread, at E(dward). 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(Second edition, 1874) here combining that snippet, with its referred-to passage at page 207 there was Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912 *), collector and scholar of Shakespeare, compiler of the “New” or “Furness” Variorum editions of Shakespeare; and there was Helen Kate (Rogers) Furness (1837-1883), whose inherited fortune made that collection (and much else) possible, see James M. Gibson, “Horace Howard Furness: Book Collector and Library Builder” at this UPenn Library page. 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on (not quite) recollecting a dream  

THE SHIPPS

Eoin "vigil" Byrne - Daniel Sharman // gustave "doc" kateb ~ milo ventimiglia

Elora "valkyrie" Vogel - Lauren German // michiel "thatcher" cowden ~ charlie cox

Sarah Flament - Inbar Lavi // olivier "lion" flament ~ matt bomer

Maja Wiśniewski - Rachel Keller // demetria brunsmeier ~ priscilla quintana

Cecile "frost" Charpentier - marie avgeropoulos // john "thermite" tracer-cohen ~ hugh dancy

Kingsley "blackbeard" Graham - David Giuntoli // nienke "iana" meijer ~ emilia clarke

Altiva "Mira" Messias - Eiza Gonzalez // ryad "jackal" ramírez al-hassar ~ pedro pascal

Zofia “zofia” Refn Höelscher - Scarlett Byrne // maxim "kapkan" senaviev ~ armie hammer

Donnatella Haugland - Candice Accola // eirik "ace" haugland ~ gaspard ulliel

Ioanna “Gridlock” Borisovna - Caity lotz // maeve "buck" kriergaard ~ rooney mara

Abel “Warden” Sartori - Alvaro Morte // sanaa "nomad" el maktoub ~ najwa nimri

Aimée “Twitch” Chauveau - Sophie Cookson // myrtle "glaz" shulman ~ aya cash

Laufar “Fuze” Bladwood - Bill Skarsgard // jaimini "kali" kalimohan shah ~ anya chalotra

Caecilia “IQ” Colias - Michelle Borth // thaysa "caveira" neves ~ tainá müller

Dominica “Bandit” Brunsmeier - Priscilla Quintana // lana maria kantor ~ emeraude toubia

Eun Jung "dokkaebi" Bak - im jinah // benjamin "smoke" black ~ michiel huisman

Bae Sooyeoung "Aruni" Park - Yeri // yumiko "hibana" imagawa ~ karen fukuhara 

Natasyia "Finka" Melnikova - Phoebe Tonkin // letizia "ying" castillo ~ angelique boyer

Ahmed "Wamai" Aziz - Rami Malek // elżbieta "sun" bosak ~ florence pugh

Piero "Maestro" Bianchi - Tom Hardy // aria "alibi" de luca ~ jameela jamil

Millicient "Blitz" Fischer - Lily Rabe // mildred belladini ~ sarah paulson

Leonoro "Kaid" Nguyen - Aiden Turner // agathe elizabeth "nokk" donaldson ~ eleanor tomlinson

Sébastien "Rook" Brodeur - Chris Evans  // marius "jäger" streicher ~ sebastian stan

François "Montagne" Couture - Henry Cavill // mary "ash" eliza mizrachi ~ jessica chastain

Georgina Kateb - Mandy Moore //  cordelia "lesion" mei lin ~ chloe bennet

Maria Guadalupe "Goyo" Sánchez - Ana de Armas //  miles "castle" campbell ~ idris elba 

Fayola "Melusi" Buhle - Tessa Thompson // erika "maverick" thorn ~ brie larson

Achilles "Pulse" Rehan - Oliver Stark // maximilian "mozzie" desreaux ~ ryan guzman

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- SPECIALIZED SENATOR DAVIS

- SPECIALIZED MR. CHURTON COLLINS

- SPECIALIZED HARRY

- SPECIALIZED MR. SIDNEY LEE

- SPECIALIZED FRANCIS BACON

- SPECIALIZED YOUNG SHAKESPEARE

- SPECIALIZED GRACE

- SPECIALIZED SUSANNA

- SPECIALIZED SIR THOMAS

- SPECIALIZED TOM

- SPECIALIZED PROFESSOR OSBORN

- SPECIALIZED MARY COWDEN CLARKE

- SPECIALIZED BEN JONSON

- SPECIALIZED YOUNG SHAKESPEARE'S

- SPECIALIZED LORD CAMPBELL

- SPECIALIZED WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

- SPECIALIZED SIR THOMAS LUCY

- SPECIALIZED SIR JAMES PLAISTED WILDE

- SPECIALIZED FLETCHER

- SPECIALIZED BLOSSOM

- SPECIALIZED JEFF

- SPECIALIZED REMARK

- SPECIALIZED MR. INDERWICK

The Plays of William Shakespeare / Edited and Annotated by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, 1864–1868

Francis Holl, after G. Staal - Sappho. From the book 'World Noted Women' by Mary Cowden Clarke, published 1858.