Satan in Hell: Paradise Lost, Book I

Though this etching by the French artist Gustave Doré dates from 1866, it reflects the theatrical lighting favored in baroque art, which began to appear in the late plays of Shakespeare designed for the indoor Blackfriars Theatre.

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