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Sunday, April 12, 2026

Shakespeare

I´m hosting the Sunday Postcard Art challenge today and have picked Shakespeare for this week´s theme. 

I love many works of Shakespeare, especially Richard III., Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest, but I don´t like most of his comedies. However, his wit and beautiful language sound (I often read his words loud) show up in those, too.

We don´t know much about The Bard who lived from 1564 to 1616, and only the Chandos portrait from about 1600/1610 probably shows us how he looked like. For my card, I´ve chosen a stamp that reproduces the portrait from Martin Droeshout, an engraving from 1623, that is based on the Chandos portrait and was used as a cover for the first folio of Shakespeare´s works.

Have you seen "Hamnet" already? I had watched another film about the same theme recently, "All is true" from Kenneth Branagh, but I prefer "Hamnet". What about you?

The Shakespeare stamp is from VLVS, and I combined it with stamps from Paper Artsy (Alison Bomber and Seth Apter), and Zettiology, and papers from Stamperia.

Do you like Shakespeare, and which is your favourite work? I can´t wait to see your interpretations this week!

6 comments:

Michele said...

i LOVE shakespeare! i am a big fan of midsummer night's dream, the tempest and macbeth, oh and king lear. those are my favorites. i love your postcard interpretation of the great Bard, and i love this theme! xo

katrin said...

Wow - dein Beispiel ist einfach der Hammer! 👍👍👍
Im Gegensatz zu dur, mag ich auch die Komödien von Shakespeare. 😉
Wünsche dir einen schönen Sonntag!

Gillena Cox said...

🙂 luv your fun Shakespeare card, Marion
Happy you dropped by my blog

Much love

Deann said...

A great example picture and a very fun challenge my friend.

Anne (cornucopia) said...

Fantastic inspiration piece and great challenge. I love MacBeth, Othello, and Richard III. Have you seen Kenneth Branagh's Othello? I thought it was well done. I don't like the comedies, either, but I enjoyed Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing. It had some very dramatic (not comedy) parts to it.

Aimeslee Winans said...

Love all the stamping here, what a great collage and theme, thanks for hosting, xoxo