{"product_id":"vip-101-women-characters-from-shakespeare-collection","title":"VIP 101 WOMEN CHARACTERS FROM SHAKESPEARE COLLECTION","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding: 75% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1201963261?badge=0\u0026amp;autopause=0\u0026amp;player_id=0\u0026amp;app_id=58479\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" title=\"SHAKESPEARE_WOMEN_COLLECTION\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of 8k digital illustrations available for download of the favorite 101 women characters of Shakespeare, exclusively from VERY ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Juliet — Romeo and Juliet, 1595 — Thirteen-year-old who chooses passionate love over family loyalty, dying in its service.\u003cbr\u003e2 Lady Macbeth — Macbeth, 1606 — Ruthlessly ambitious queen who manipulates her husband toward regicide, consumed by guilt.\u003cbr\u003e3 Ophelia — Hamlet, 1600 — Tragic young noblewoman whose madness and drowning haunt the play as innocence destroyed.\u003cbr\u003e4 Cleopatra — Antony and Cleopatra, 1606 — Egypt's magnificent queen whose love for Antony and refusal to be a Roman trophy define her legend.\u003cbr\u003e5 Desdemona — Othello, 1603 — Faithful guileless wife whose loyalty cannot save her from her husband's jealous delusion.\u003cbr\u003e6 Portia — The Merchant of Venice, 1596 — Brilliant heiress who disguises herself as a lawyer and outmaneuvers the court with dazzling eloquence.\u003cbr\u003e7 Rosalind — As You Like It, 1599 — Forest exile who cross-dresses as Ganymede and orchestrates multiple love plots with joyous intelligence.\u003cbr\u003e8 Beatrice — Much Ado About Nothing, 1598 — Sharp-tongued wit who spars endlessly with Benedick, masking deep feeling beneath comic armor.\u003cbr\u003e9 Viola — Twelfth Night, 1601 — Shipwrecked twin who disguises herself as Cesario and navigates mistaken loves with grace.\u003cbr\u003e10 Hermione — The Winter's Tale, 1611 — Wrongly accused queen whose patient virtue is vindicated in Shakespeare's most miraculous restoration.\u003cbr\u003e11 Gertrude — Hamlet, 1600 — Compliant yet conflicted queen whose remarriage sets the tragedy in motion.\u003cbr\u003e12 Cordelia — King Lear, 1606 — Youngest truest daughter whose refusal to flatter Lear costs her everything and redeems nothing.\u003cbr\u003e13 Goneril — King Lear, 1606 — Eldest daughter who strips her father of everything after he hands her his kingdom, embodying ingratitude.\u003cbr\u003e14 Regan — King Lear, 1606 — Middle daughter whose cruelty toward her father exceeds even Goneril's, ending in poison and death.\u003cbr\u003e15 Isabella — Measure for Measure, 1603 — Novice nun who defends her chastity against a corrupt deputy with unyielding moral courage.\u003cbr\u003e16 Helena — All's Well That Ends Well, 1604 — Physician's daughter who pursues and wins the reluctant Bertram through resourceful love.\u003cbr\u003e17 Titania — A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 — Queen of the fairies whose enchanted love for Bottom is Shakespeare's most comic humiliation of pride.\u003cbr\u003e18 Helena — A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 — Devoted young woman who pursues the man she loves through magical chaos and is rewarded at last.\u003cbr\u003e19 Hermia — A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 — Defiant daughter who flees her father's choice of husband into the enchanted forest for love.\u003cbr\u003e20 Imogen — Cymbeline, 1609 — Faithful princess whose husband's jealous cruelty and her own disguised courage drive one of Shakespeare's most complex romances.\u003cbr\u003e21 Perdita — The Winter's Tale, 1611 — Lost princess raised as a shepherd girl whose natural nobility shines through her humble circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e22 Miranda — The Tempest, 1611 — Innocent young woman raised on an island who encounters the wider world with wonder and falls immediately in love.\u003cbr\u003e23 Portia — Julius Caesar, 1599 — Stoic wife who wounds herself to prove she can keep secrets, sharing her husband's fate in death.\u003cbr\u003e24 Calpurnia — Julius Caesar, 1599 — Caesar's wife whose prophetic dreams warn him against going to the Senate on the Ides of March.\u003cbr\u003e25 Mistress Ford — The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1597 — Virtuous Windsor wife who engineers Falstaff's comic humiliations with gleeful precision.\u003cbr\u003e26 Mistress Page — The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1597 — Mistress Ford's co-conspirator whose practical wit drives the plot against Falstaff.\u003cbr\u003e27 Anne Page — The Merry Wives of Windsor, 1597 — Young woman whose hand is sought by three suitors and who chooses her own way with quiet determination.\u003cbr\u003e28 Katharina — The Taming of the Shrew, 1590 — Fierce independent woman whose apparent taming remains one of Shakespeare's most contested dramatic conclusions.\u003cbr\u003e29 Bianca — The Taming of the Shrew, 1590 — Apparently docile younger sister whose true nature emerges only after marriage.\u003cbr\u003e30 Silvia — The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1589 — Nobly born heroine who remains faithful to her true love through betrayal and near assault.\u003cbr\u003e31 Julia — The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1589 — Devoted young woman who disguises herself as a page to follow the man she loves despite his faithlessness.\u003cbr\u003e32 Cressida — Troilus and Cressida, 1602 — Trojan woman whose love for Troilus cannot survive the political machinery that separates them.\u003cbr\u003e33 Helen of Troy — Troilus and Cressida, 1602 — The face that launched a thousand ships, reduced by Shakespeare to a frivolous figure of hollow beauty.\u003cbr\u003e34 Andromache — Troilus and Cressida, 1602 — Hector's loyal wife whose desperate pleas for him not to fight go unheeded.\u003cbr\u003e35 Cassandra — Troilus and Cressida, 1602 — Trojan prophetess whose accurate warnings of doom are dismissed as madness by everyone around her.\u003cbr\u003e36 Volumnia — Coriolanus, 1608 — Ferociously ambitious Roman mother who shaped her son into a weapon and then turns him away from Rome's gates.\u003cbr\u003e37 Virgilia — Coriolanus, 1608 — Coriolanus's gentle wife whose silent devotion contrasts with his mother's consuming ambition.\u003cbr\u003e38 Valeria — Coriolanus, 1608 — Roman noblewoman and friend to Virgilia whose cheerful sociability offsets the play's martial severity.\u003cbr\u003e39 Tamora — Titus Andronicus, 1592 — Captured Queen of the Goths whose revenge against Titus drives the play's escalating cycle of horror.\u003cbr\u003e40 Lavinia — Titus Andronicus, 1592 — Titus's daughter whose brutal violation and mutilation make her the play's most devastating image of innocence destroyed.\u003cbr\u003e41 Queen Margaret — Henry VI Parts 1 2 3, 1591 — French-born queen who becomes England's most ferocious political and military operator across three plays and Richard III.\u003cbr\u003e42 Joan of Arc — Henry VI Part 1, 1591 — French military leader portrayed by Shakespeare with complex ambivalence between heroism and witchcraft.\u003cbr\u003e43 Lady Anne — Richard III, 1592 — Widow of Edward of Westminster who is wooed and won by the man who murdered her husband in one of Shakespeare's most audacious seduction scenes.\u003cbr\u003e44 Queen Elizabeth — Richard III, 1592 — Mother of the princes in the Tower whose grief and political cunning match Richard's own in their confrontation scene.\u003cbr\u003e45 Duchess of York — Richard III, 1592 — Richard's own mother whose final curse on her son is one of the most devastating maternal condemnations in literature.\u003cbr\u003e46 Katherine of Aragon — Henry VIII, 1613 — Dignified and wronged queen whose trial scene is one of Shakespeare's most affecting portraits of unjust suffering.\u003cbr\u003e47 Anne Boleyn — Henry VIII, 1613 — Rising star whose beauty catches the king's eye and whose ultimate fate the play carefully avoids depicting.\u003cbr\u003e48 Constance — King John, 1596 — Grief-mad mother whose lamentations over her son Arthur's fate are among Shakespeare's most operatic expressions of maternal anguish.\u003cbr\u003e49 Blanch of Castile — King John, 1596 — Young noblewoman married for political convenience whose brief happiness is immediately destroyed by war.\u003cbr\u003e50 Eleanor of Aquitaine — King John, 1596 — Formidable dowager queen whose political intelligence and force of will dominate every scene she inhabits.\u003cbr\u003e51 Hero — Much Ado About Nothing, 1598 — Falsely accused bride whose public humiliation and apparent death expose the cruelty of male honor culture.\u003cbr\u003e52 Margaret — Much Ado About Nothing, 1598 — Hero's waiting woman whose innocent indiscretion provides the evidence for her mistress's false accusation.\u003cbr\u003e53 Ursula — Much Ado About Nothing, 1598 — Waiting woman who assists in the plot to bring Beatrice and Benedick together.\u003cbr\u003e54 Nerissa — The Merchant of Venice, 1596 — Portia's witty companion who follows her mistress into the law court disguise and marries Gratiano.\u003cbr\u003e55 Jessica — The Merchant of Venice, 1596 — Shylock's daughter who elopes with Lorenzo, converts to Christianity, and abandons her father's house and religion.\u003cbr\u003e56 Maria — Twelfth Night, 1601 — Olivia's sharp-witted waiting woman who engineers the humiliation of Malvolio with brilliant comic precision.\u003cbr\u003e57 Olivia — Twelfth Night, 1601 — Mourning countess who falls in love with Cesario and finds herself married to his twin brother.\u003cbr\u003e58 Audrey — As You Like It, 1599 — Simple country girl who marries the fool Touchstone with cheerful unconcern for his sophistication.\u003cbr\u003e59 Phoebe — As You Like It, 1599 — Disdainful shepherdess who scorns her devoted suitor Silvius and falls hopelessly for the disguised Rosalind.\u003cbr\u003e60 Celia — As You Like It, 1599 — Rosalind's devoted cousin who follows her into exile and whose loyalty is the play's most constant emotional anchor.\u003cbr\u003e61 Paulina — The Winter's Tale, 1611 — Fiercely loyal noblewoman who preserves Hermione in secret for sixteen years and engineers her miraculous restoration.\u003cbr\u003e62 Emilia — Othello, 1603 — Iago's wife whose fatal compliance gives way at last to the truth-telling that costs her her life.\u003cbr\u003e63 Bianca — Othello, 1603 — Cassio's mistress whose possession of the fatal handkerchief makes her an unwitting instrument of Desdemona's destruction.\u003cbr\u003e64 Lady Capulet — Romeo and Juliet, 1595 — Juliet's cold ambitious mother who presses her daughter toward Paris and cannot understand her grief.\u003cbr\u003e65 Nurse — Romeo and Juliet, 1595 — Juliet's devoted earthy nurse whose ultimate failure of loyalty at the crisis is one of Shakespeare's most human betrayals.\u003cbr\u003e66 Rosaline — Romeo and Juliet, 1595 — Romeo's first love, never seen, whose coldness drives him to the Capulet feast where he meets Juliet.\u003cbr\u003e67 Hippolyta — A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1595 — Amazon queen and Theseus's bride-to-be whose brief skepticism about the lovers' story frames the play's ending.\u003cbr\u003e68 Lady Percy — Henry IV Part 1, 1597 — Hotspur's spirited wife whose wit and affection illuminate the private man behind the warrior's public fury.\u003cbr\u003e69 Mistress Quickly — Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, 1597 — Garrulous hostess of the Boar's Head whose malapropisms and loyalty to Falstaff make her one of Shakespeare's great comic creations.\u003cbr\u003e70 Doll Tearsheet — Henry IV Part 2, 1597 — Falstaff's mistress whose genuine tenderness beneath the bawdy surface gives the tavern scenes their most affecting note.\u003cbr\u003e71 Jaquenetta — Love's Labour's Lost, 1594 — Country girl whose pregnancy by Don Armado provides the play's earthiest comic subplot.\u003cbr\u003e72 Princess of France — Love's Labour's Lost, 1594 — Witty and dignified princess who refuses the King of Navarre's love until he has proven himself worthy by a year of mourning.\u003cbr\u003e73 Rosaline — Love's Labour's Lost, 1594 — Sharp-tongued lady who sets Berowne the hardest condition of all and is the play's most Beatrice-like figure.\u003cbr\u003e74 Maria — Love's Labour's Lost, 1594 — One of the princess's ladies whose wit matches her companions' in the battle of words with the Navarrese lords.\u003cbr\u003e75 Katharine — Love's Labour's Lost, 1594 — Lady whose grief for her dead sister gives the play its most unexpected note of genuine sorrow.\u003cbr\u003e76 Adriana and Luciana — The Comedy of Errors, 1594 — paired portrait: Adriana, the jealous wife whose passionate possessiveness drives the mistaken identity comedy to its most emotionally charged moments, and Luciana, her gentle sister who counsels patience and finds herself wooed by the wrong Antipholus.\u003cbr\u003e77 Abbess Emilia — The Comedy of Errors, 1594 — The priory abbess revealed at the play's resolution to be the long-lost mother of the twins.\u003cbr\u003e78 Diana — All's Well That Ends Well, 1604 — Florentine girl whose honor Helena borrows for the bed trick that finally secures Bertram's commitment.\u003cbr\u003e79 Countess of Rossillion — All's Well That Ends Well, 1604 — Bertram's mother, whose clear-eyed wisdom and quiet alliance with Helena carry the play's moral center.\u003cbr\u003e80 Mariana — Measure for Measure, 1603 — Angelo's abandoned betrothed who takes Isabella's place in the bed trick and finally wins the marriage Angelo owes her.\u003cbr\u003e81 Thaisa — Pericles, 1607 — Pericles's wife apparently dead in childbirth at sea who is revived and lives as a priestess until reunited with her family.\u003cbr\u003e82 Marina — Pericles, 1607 — Pericles's daughter whose virtue survives a brothel and whose reunion with her father is one of Shakespeare's most affecting recognitions.\u003cbr\u003e83 Dionyza — Pericles, 1607 — Governor's wife who orders Marina's murder out of jealousy for her own daughter and is destroyed in the play's summary justice.\u003cbr\u003e84 Cymbeline's Queen — Cymbeline, 1609 — Scheming stepmother whose poison plot against Imogen and Cymbeline unravels at her death.\u003cbr\u003e85 Juno — The Tempest, 1611 — Goddess of marriage who appears in Prospero's betrothal masque to bless Ferdinand and Miranda alongside Ceres and Iris.\u003cbr\u003e86 Iris — The Tempest, 1611 — Goddess of the rainbow who appears in Prospero's masque as messenger between the divine and human worlds.\u003cbr\u003e87 Ceres — The Tempest, 1611 — Goddess of harvest who blesses the betrothal of Ferdinand and Miranda in Prospero's celebratory masque.\u003cbr\u003e88 Phrynia and Timandra — Timon of Athens, 1606 — paired portrait of Alcibiades's two mistresses, who receive gold from the misanthropic Timon with cynical indifference.\u003cbr\u003e89 Jailer's Daughter and Emilia — The Two Noble Kinsmen, 1613 — paired portrait: the jailer's daughter whose mad love for Palamon is the play's most psychologically distinctive subplot, and Emilia, the woman both Palamon and Arcite love and who must choose between them when fate makes the choice unavoidable.\u003cbr\u003e90 Charmian and Iras — Antony and Cleopatra, 1606 — paired portrait of Cleopatra's two devoted attendants, who die beside their mistress rather than survive her.\u003cbr\u003e91 Octavia — Antony and Cleopatra, 1606 — Caesar's sister whose marriage to Antony is a political instrument and whose gentleness is no match for Cleopatra's fire.\u003cbr\u003e92 Lady Faulconbridge — King John, 1596 — Mother who admits her son Philip is the illegitimate child of Richard Coeur de Lion with remarkable composure.\u003cbr\u003e93 Alice — Henry V, 1599 — Katherine's French lady-in-waiting who teaches her English in the play's most charming scene of linguistic comedy.\u003cbr\u003e94 Mistress Overdone — Measure for Measure, 1603 — Brothel keeper whose frank commerce in bodies exposes the hypocrisy of Angelo's moral crackdown.\u003cbr\u003e95 Juliet — Measure for Measure, 1603 — Young woman pregnant by Claudio whose situation drives the entire plot of the play.\u003cbr\u003e96 Katherine — Henry V, 1599 — French princess wooed by Henry in broken French and English whose charm and dignity survive the comedy of their courtship.\u003cbr\u003e97 Isabel of France — Henry V, 1599 — French queen whose formal speech blessing the peace between England and France closes the play with ceremonial dignity.\u003cbr\u003e98 Duchess of Gloucester — Richard II, 1595 — Grief-maddened widow of the murdered Duke of Gloucester, demanding vengeance that will never come, who returns to die alone in her husband's emptied house.\u003cbr\u003e99 Lady Macduff — Macbeth, 1606 — Murdered alongside her children on Macbeth's orders, her brief, terrified scene with her son before the killers arrive is one of the play's most affecting moments of pure innocence destroyed.\u003cbr\u003e100 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