Shakespeare seen: image, performance and society

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"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"--

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Full title :Shakespeare seen : image, performance and society / Stuart Sillars.

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Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9781108148948, 1108148948, 9781108147705, 1108147704
oclc:on1080638578
LC Classification:PR2976
Dewey Decimal:822.3/3

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.