Picture section 1
2 Mayavision International Ltd/David Wallace; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
3 By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library; Oxford Picture Library/Chris Andrews; Special Collections, Case Library, Colgate University Library; 4 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
5 By kind permission of the Trustees of Stonyhurst College; Mary Evans Picture Library; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
7 Mayavision International Ltd/David Wallace; Reproduced by permission of English Heritage/NMR.
8 The John Rylands University Library of Manchester; Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge; The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
Picture section 2
1 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge/Bridgeman Art Library; By kind permission of the Trustees of Stonyhurst College; Dennis Field, under the direction of William Hunt, Windsor Herald.
2 Antiquarian Images; Hulton Archive.
3 By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library; National Portrait Gallery, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library.
4 By permission of the British Library.
6 By permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library; Barber Institute/University of Birmingham; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London/Bridgeman Art Library.
7 Reproduced by permission of English Heritage/NMR.
8 Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; The National Archives; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust/David Wallace.