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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Hamlet, act II, scene 1 Ophelia and Hamlet ca. 1775-76 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Hamlet, act V, scene 1 Hamlet at Ophelia's grave 1774 drawing British Museum |
Hamlet:
I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not (with all their quantity of love)
Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
Claudius:
O, he is mad, Laertes.
Gertrude:
For love of God, forbear him!
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album King Lear, act V, scene 3 Lear and the dead Cordelia 1774-78 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Julius Caesar, act V, scene 5 Death of Brutus ca. 1780-85 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Macbeth, act II, scene 2 Macbeth and Lady Macbeth 1774 drawing British Museum |
Macbeth:
I'll go no more:
I am afraid to think what I have done;
Look on't again I dare not.
Lady Macbeth:
Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;
For it must seem their guilt.
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Macbeth, act IV, scene 1 Macbeth, the Three Witches, and the Armed Head 1774 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Macbeth, act IV, scene 1 Macbeth, the Three Witches, and the Armed Head 1774 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry FuseliRoman Album Macbeth, act V, scene 1 Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking 1772 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Macbeth, act V, scene 1 Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking 1772 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Henry VI, part 2, act III, scene 2 Warwick with Gloucester's corpse 1777 drawing British Museum |
Earl of Warwick:
Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.
Henry VI:
That is to see how deep my grave is made;
For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,
for seeing him I see my life in death.
Earl of Warwick:
As surely as my soul intends to live
With that dread King that took our state upon him
To free us from his father's wrathful curse,
I do believe that violent hands were laid
Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.
Earl of Suffolk:
A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!
What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album Henry VI, part 2, act III, scene 3 Death of Cardinal Beaufort 1772 drawing British Museum |
Earl of Warwick:
See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!
Earl of Salisbury:
Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.
Henry VI:
Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!
Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,
Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.
He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!
Earl of Warwick:
So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
Henry VI:
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;
And let us all to meditation.
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| Henry Fuseli Roman Album King John, act IV, scene 1 Arthur, Duke of Brittany and Hubert de Burgh 1775 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli The Tempest, act I, scene 2 Prospero, Miranda, and Ferdinand ca. 1767-69 drawing British Museum |
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| Henry Fuseli Timon of Athens, act IV, scene 3 Timon seated in a cave approached by Alcibiades, Phrynia, and Timandra 1783 drawing British Museum |
Alcibiades:
What art thou there? speak.
Timon:
A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,
For showing me again the eyes of man!
Alcibiades:
What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee,
That art thyself a man?
Timon:
I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
That I might love thee something.
Alcibiades:
I know thee well;
But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange.
Timon:
I know thee too; and more than that I know thee,
I not desire to know. Follow thy drum;
With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:
Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;
Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine
Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,
For all her cherubim look.
Phrynia:
Thy lips rot off!