The plays and poems of William Shakespeare have inspired and continue to inspire the full spectrum of the arts. From painting to sculpture, from ballet to film, we continue to see the characters and themes that Shakespeare wrote about interpreted in new and interesting ways.

This online exhibition brings together some of the wonderful sculptures inspired by Shakespeare that can be seen in the gardens at some of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties, as well as items from our collections.

Below is a slideshow of some of the sculptures featured in this series.

Read our first post Sculpting Falstaff here.

Our second post, Evolution of a Sculpture, looks at the process for making a bronze sculpture.

In Sculpting Tragedy we take the sculpture of King Lear at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage as a case study.

“How to represent Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters in sculpture?” is a question asked by our post Sculpting the Secret, Black and Midnight Hags.

Sculpting Shakespeare in San Diego is a fantastic post and video provided by the San Diego Shakespeare Society, who looked at three sculptures of William Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego.

The Winter’s Tale in the Gardens of New Place, is the final in a series by sculptor, Greg Wyatt. This piece depicts a sculpture that in itself comes to life. Read our post Sculpture within a Sculpture.

In Sculpting a Seventeenth Century Physician we look at a small wooden sculpture inspired by Shakespeare’s son-in-law, Dr. John Hall.