Know about Wyndham Lewis illustration for William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens at the Folger Shakespeare Library
A look at an illustration in the Vorticist style by Wyndham Lewis, c. 1913. The subject is William Shakespeare's play, Timon of Athens.
Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, MainzOverview of the Statue of Zeus.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Flying a flag with a complicated design is like trying to read the Encyclopædia Britannica to someone from across a highway by screaming.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.The Laughing Cavalier was painted in 1624 by Dutch artist Frans Hals.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Learn about Jean Cocteau's Surrealist stage production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as depicted in the book Roméo et Juliette (1926).
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© Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Jean Rhys's work is animated by a spirit of wanting to speak for those who are voiceless.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)Writing by women in English during the 16th and 17th centuries is more common than once thought—and women scholars today are leading efforts to rediscover these authors.
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Courtesy of Folger Shakespeare Library; CC-BY-SA 4.0 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)The story of William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, as told by the cast and crew of a Folger Shakespeare Library production.
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