Canned meat is here inserted into a scene from Macbeth.  From c. 1890.

"Macbeth.— 'Thrice the brindle cat hath mew'd.'"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1871.

"Keep your distance.  'Touch me not so near' —Othello II.3."  From 1904.  Scanned by the University of British Columbia Library.

"Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus.  [Julius Caesar.]"  From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1931.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, 1914.

"The fairies' errands" from Typical Tales of Fancy, Romance, and History from Shakespeare's Plays, 1892.

"Turning the accomplishments of many years into an hour-glass.  [Henry V.]"  From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1931.   Also very much of interest: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia and How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook..

What's the difference between Lamb's Tales From Shakespeare and lambs' tails from Shakespeare?

	lambs'   tails	Lamb's   Tales
"Is he a lamb?" —Henry VI, Part II	x	x
"I am a lamb." —Titus Andronicus	x	x
"He's a lamb indeed." —Coriolanus	x	x
"Esteem him as a lamb." —Macbeth	x	x
"Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity." —Henry VI, Part III	x	x
"Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment?" —Henry VI, Part II	x	x
"In peace was never gentle lamb more mild." —Richard II	x	x
"In the figure of a lamb." —Much Ado About Nothing	x	x
"We were as twinn'd lambs." —Winter's Tale	x	x
"Why, lamb! why, lady!" —Romeo and Juliet	x

From Shakespeare's The Tempest, illustrated by Robert Anning Bell, 1933.

From Typical Tales of Fancy, Romance, and History from Shakespeare's Plays, 1892.

"He lards the lean earth as he walks along."  A pig as Falstaff, c. 1890.