Shylock's House–Shylock, Jessica and Launcelot (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 5)

The Meeting, a man bows before a seated woman at center, while couples wearing masks converse in the background

Charles Joseph Flipart, After Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), Joseph Wagner

Lady Macbeth, Macbeth and the Murder of Duncan (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act II, Scene II)

Charles Rolls, After Henry Corbould, William Shakespeare

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

After William Hogarth

Queen Margaret and Suffolk (Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act 3, Scene 2)

Charles Heath, the elder, After John Massey Wright, William Shakespeare

King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

William Hogarth, Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, Anne Boleyn, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, William Shakespeare

King Richard and Queen Isabel (Shakespeare, King RIchard II, Act 5, Scene 1)

William Chevalier, After John Massey Wright, William Shakespeare

Mary, Queen of Scots at the execution block (from "The History of England")

David Hume, William Skelton, After John Opie, Robert Bowyer, Mary, Queen of Scots

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, After Matthew William Peters, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

The Murder of Polonius

Eugène Delacroix, William Shakespeare

Queen Catherine, Cardinal Wolsey and Cardinal Campeius (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Thew, After Matthew William Peters, Originally published by John & Josiah Boydell, Reissued by Shearjashub Spooner, William Shakespeare

Hamlet: The Murder of Polonius

Eugène Delacroix

The Resentment of Queen Catherine (Paul de Rapin, History of England)

John Ogborne, After William Hamilton, John Thane