Most of the works in this series interpret some aspect of the Tragedies, including Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet and Othello. Click the thumbnail to view a larger image and details of the work.

The Seed of Time

Macbeth to the witches:-

If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow, and which will not,
Speak then to me ...

The Wheel of Fire

Lear to his daughter Cordelia:-

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald like molten lead.

Sleep of Death

One of Hamlet’s soliloquies:-

To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil ...

Not Wisely

When discovering that he has killed Desdemona after being duped by Iago, Othello mourns the deed and asks that the guard reports:-

then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;

Great Dunsinane

In his castle at Dunsinane Macbeth is preparing for a siege:-

Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:
Some say he’s mad; others, that lesser hate him,
Do call it valiant fury:

Frailty

Hamlet denounces his mother’s hasty remarriage after the murder of his father:-

Let me not think on’t, - Frailty, thy name is woman!

A Sea of Troubles

Hamlet muses on his temptation to commit suicide:-

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?

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