Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is the first book-length study of the relationship between Shakespeare's works and photography. It examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, and how photographs have influenced perceptions of Shakespearean performance, character and cultural authority.

List of contents

Introduction: leave not a rack behind; Part I. Photographing Performers: 1. Liveness, documentation, and the RSC's dreams, 1954-77; 2. Photographing the past in the theatre of Charles Kean; 3. Julia Margaret Cameron, sympathetic Shakespeare and photographic afterlives; Part II. Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet: 4. 'Too much of water': Ophelia, photography, dissolution; 5. Poor Yorick: the photograph as memento mori; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.

About the author

Sally Barnden is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collections' at King's College London. Her research on Shakespeare performance and still photography inspired the 'Still Shakespeare' animation project, a collaboration with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network. Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin and Theatre Journal.

Summary

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is the first book-length study of the relationship between Shakespeare's works and photography. It examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, and how photographs have influenced perceptions of Shakespearean performance, character and cultural authority.

Product details

• Authors: Sally Barnden, Sally (King''s College London) Barnden
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781108738255
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73825-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Photography & photographs, Media Studies, English, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Theatre Direction & Production, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Photography and photographs, Theatre direction and production, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Shakespeare; performance; photography; liveness; archives