Shakespeare seen : image, performance and society / Stuart Sillars.
| Author/creator | Sillars, Stuart, 1951- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | xix, 277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color, some black and white) ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Frames and circumstances -- Mechanism and meaning in illustrated editions -- Performance reading in practice -- Shakespeare painting and aesthetic identity -- The visual identities of the Comedy of Errors -- Text, image and temper in King Lear -- Rhythms of action and feeling : the Roman plays -- Rank and race in imaging Othello -- The merchant of Venice and English visual culture -- Shakespeare painting 1800-1848 -- Conclusions and departures. |
| Abstract | "This wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare's plays. Covering a rich chronological terrain, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the midpoint of the nineteenth, Stuart Sillars offers a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach to reading Shakespeare in relation to image, history, text, book history, print culture and performance"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2018037035 |
| ISBN | 9781107193246 |
| ISBN | 1107193249 hardback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Item has been checked out | PR2976 .S465 2019 | Due 11/28/2026 | Want This? |