Sillars, Stuart. Shakespeare seen : image, performance and society

Folger bibliographic ID: 356374
Folger call number: PR2976 .S465 2019
Folger holdings ID: 504559

"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"--

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Aesthetics

author: Sillars, Stuart, 1951-
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616