Shakespeare Seen - Image, Performance and Society

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

List of contents

1. Frames and circumstances; Part I. Structures and Concepts in Shakespeare Imaging: 2. Mechanism and meaning in illustrated editions; 3. Performance reading in practice; 4. Shakespeare painting and aesthetic identity; Part II. Image, Stage and Beyond: Instances and Movement: 5. The visual identities of The Comedy of Errors; 6. Text, image and temper in King Lear; 7. Rhythms of action and feeling: the Roman plays; 8. Rank and race in imaging Othello; 9. The Merchant of Venice and English visual culture; 10. Shakespeare painting 1800-1848; 11. Conclusions and departures.

About the author

Stuart Sillars is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, and the author of several books and many articles on the relations between word and image, including four previous volumes on Shakespeare and visual art published by Cambridge University Press.

Summary

This collection of essays, some previously unpublished, discusses the ways in which earlier illustrators and painters approached Shakespeare's plays, looking at images in relation to performance, criticism and their social and political frames in the key period of Shakespeare imaging.

Product details

• Authors: Stuart Sillars, Stuart (Universitetet I Bergen Sillars, Sillars Stuart
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107193246
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19324-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; English, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Human figures depicted in art, Literary studies: plays and playwrights