Today, on what is generally believed to be Shakespeare’s birthday, we’re breaking out our copy of Mirko Ilic and Steven Heller’s book Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters From Around the World. While innumerable directors and actors have given life to the bard’s masterworks, so too have designers.
Here are 10 posters from the past 200 years, pulled from the pages celebrating the stages.
Theater Alnwick, US, 1820. D: unknown
Habima National Theatre, IL, 1961. d: Dan Reisinger
Teatr Dramatyczny, PL, 1961. d: Henryk Tomaszewski (Dydo Poster Collection)
Teatar u podrumu Atelje 212, RS, 1971. D: Slobodan Masic
Teatr Dramatyczny, PL, 1981. d: Eugeniusz Get Stankiewicz (Dydo Poster Collection)Courtesy of Georgian State Museum of Theatre, Music, Cinema, and Choreography
Teatr Ochoty, PL, 1985. ad/d: Andrzej Pagowski (Dydo Poster Collection)
25 Curious Years, Theatre for a New Audience, US, 2004. d: Milton Glaser, p: Matthew Klein
arka Sunhaz, HU, 2005. d: Istvan Orosz
Shakespeare Theater Diever, NL, 2012. ad: Jack Nieborg, d: Pamlien Schutter, p: Korn Tummerman
Theatre for a New Audience, US, 2013. ad: Julie Taymor, d: Milton Glaser, Sue Walsh, p: Josef Astor
Images courtesy Princeton Architectural Press