Shakespeare's Artists - The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems

This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare''s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare''s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite new profession that Shakespeare himself followed. A high valuation placed on art and artists, and at the same time certain fears of these and fears for these, made for a very complex reception of the figure of the artist, and Shakespeare''s treatments were equal to that complexity.>

About the author

B. J. Sokol is Emeritus Professor of the University of London (Goldsmith's College) and Senior Research Associate at University College London, UK.

Product details

• Authors: B J Sokol, B. J. Sokol, B. J. (Goldsmiths Sokol, Professor B. J. (Goldsmiths Sokol
• Publisher: Arden shakespeare
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781350021938
• ISBN: 978-1-350-02193-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights