16 letters found
- 155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
- in note 17:
...ilarities between the work of Rembrandt and Shakespeare, both of whom portrayed subjects ranging in ...
- in note 12:
In William Shakespeare, King Henry iv, act 3, scene 3, Sir John Falstaff, a gluttonous and pusillanim...
- in translation:
...©volution Française, and then last winter, Shakespeare and a little V. Hugo and Dickens and Beecher...
Their God is like the God of Shakespeare’s drunkard, Falstaff, ‘the inside of a church’; in tr...
...oved; there’s something of Rembrandt in Shakespeare and something of Correggio or Sarto in Miche...
...esemblance. And I think that Kent, a man in Shakespeare’s King Lear, is just as noble and distingu...
- in note 20:
Van Gogh considers the character Kent in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606-1607) to be just as noble as...
- 158 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, Friday, 24 September 1880.
- in translation:
...۪un condamn̩ and a very beautiful book on Shakespeare. I took up the study of this writer a long t...
- 175 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, between Wednesday, 12 and Saturday, 15 October 1881.
- in note 4:
...ition 1623) is the title of a comedy by William Shakespeare and the phrase occurs as a line in the p...
- in translation:
...ruggle with nature sometimes resembles what Shakespeare calls ‘Taming the shrew’ (i.e. to conque...
- 182 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Thursday, 10 or Friday, 11 November 1881.
- in note 10:
This phrase comes from William Shakespeare, As you like it. Act 2, scene 1: ‘I smile, and say “Th...
- in translation:
...ng winter frost. ‘This is no flattery’, Shakespeare would say. Samson, though, says somewhere el...
- 267 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 19 September 1882.
- in translation:
The portrait of Shakespeare by Menzel is unknown to me; I’d very much like to see how the one lion ...
- 273 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Sunday, 22 October 1882.
- in translation:
...ole subject interests me. I would like to see the portrait of Shakespeare by Menzel sooner or later.
- 387 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, Sunday, 16 September 1883.
- in note 6:
Probably a reference to William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: ‘The time is out of joint’, ...
- 388 To Theo van Gogh. Hoogeveen, on or about Friday, 21 September 1883.
- in note 14:
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c. 1606-1607) the unscrupulous Lady Macbeth persuades her husband to murd...
- 393 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Sunday, 7 October 1883.
- in note 9:
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: ‘The time is out of joint’. See Shakespeare 1882, p....
- 407 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Monday, 26 November 1883.
- in note 9:
...t? (1859) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton; cf. also Shakespeare, Othello, act 3, scene 3: ‘What he will do...
- in note 12:
...e king so that he could become king himself. In the end, he is murdered too. (Shakespeare, Macbeth).
- in note 11:
...eth had on her husband. For Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c. 1606-1607), see letter 388, ...
- 408 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Saturday, 1 December 1883.
- in note 2:
For Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, see letter 388, n. 14.
- 782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
- in note 14:
...n Dicks published an illustrated edition of Shakespeare’s Complete works, which was reprinted a nu...
- in translation:
...e here to read from time to time would be a Shakespeare. There’s one priced at one shilling, Dicks...
There’s no hurry for the Shakespeare, if they don’t have an edition like that, it won’t take an...
- 784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
- in note 6:
Shakespeare’s Richard ii (1596-1597) demonstrates how an incompetent king can bring about his own d...
- in note 15:
...in. Van Gogh probably compared this book to Shakespeare because of its detailed descriptions of the ...
- in note 13:
The complete translation of Shakespeare by François-Victor Hugo, the Oeuvres complètes, appeared be...
- in translation:
...te. I thank you also very cordially for the Shakespeare. It will help me not to forget the little En...
...s that the voices of these people, which in Shakespeare’s case reach us from a distance of several...
...l then, one encounters it in many places in Shakespeare. And then serious or gay portraits like the ...
...ng, though, how L’abbesse de Jouarre, when you think of it, holds its own even beside Shakespeare.
How I think of Reid as I read Shakespeare, and how I’ve thought of him several times when I was ill...
- 785 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
- in note 11:
Regarding Shakespeare’s Richard ii, Henry iv and Henry v, see letter 784, n. 6. Henry vi (1590-1591...
- in translation:
I’m quite absorbed in reading the Shakespeare that Theo sent me here, where at last I’ll have the...
- 786 Jo van Gogh-Bonger to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 5 July 1889.
- in note 12:
.... On 21 January 1882 this company performed Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the Grand Théâtre in Amsterd...
- in note 11:
...not understand how people always rave about Shakespeare. Now I have understood it and feel proud of ...
- in note 10:
Van Gogh had written about Shakespeare in letter 784.
- in translation:
...sure what you wrote to Theo about reading Shakespeare. Isn’t it beautiful – and so few people ...
- 787 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 6 July 1889.
- in note 11:
Shakespeare’s Henry viii (1623), act 2, scene 1, is a ‘mirror for magistrates’. While Henry vii...
- in note 10:
Shakespeare’s Measure for measure (1604-1605) is a complicated tragi-comedy with several sub-plots....
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
- in letter_writer_2:
...ng with Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s cabin), Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare and Aeschylus.
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1889:
...oltaire’s Zadig ou la destinée and reads Shakespeare’s history plays and Measure for measure (7...
- in 1880:
...nt reads Hugo’s Le dernier jour d’un condamné and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and King Lear (158).
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright
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