Lady Elizabeth Berkeley, was an English courtier and patron of the arts.
Elizabeth, Lady Berkeley's tomb effigy by Nicholas Stone, in St Dunstan's church, Cranford, Middlesex
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare between the years 1594 to 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage o
Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley
…nineteen years old. Her family were patrons of Shakespeare's theatre company, and her wedding has been put forward as one of the possible occasions when A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed for the first time in public. On 5 January 1606, at the wedding festivities of the Earl of Essex and Lady Frances Howard, Elizabeth was…
Titania sleeping in the moonlight protected by her fairies, 19th century painting by John Simmons
Hermia and Helena by Washington Allston, 1818
The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania by Joseph Noel Paton, 1849
A drawing of Puck, Titania and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream from Act III, Scene II by Charles Buchel, 1905