Living Image - Shakespearean Essays

First published in 1972.

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays.

The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.

List of contents

1. The Book of Sport 2. The Hawk and the Handsaw 3. The Ritual of the Hunt 4. 'The pleasant'st angling' 5. 'Incorps'd and demi-natur'd' 6. A Review of Bowmen 7. A Note on Shakespeare's Army 8. The Images of Antony and Cleopatra

About the author

T.R Henn

Summary

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery,

Product details

• Authors: T R Henn, T. R. Henn, Henn T. R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9780415845694
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84569-4
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Performance Art, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics