Designing Shakespeare through the Ages explores the changing conversations surrounding William Shakespeare’s many plays primarily through the designs of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear. Despite many of these plays being written before 1610, they speak to artists around the world now just as they did to the audiences that first saw them. Each play approaches different themes, revealing a different facet to the human condition. Through the designs and conversations that surround these plays, we can see the ways in which they are still as alive now as they were 400 years ago.