| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"This work is built on the author's earlier work, Painting Shakespeare"--LC CIP on t.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-374) and index. |
| Contents |
Play, page and image -- Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare -- Rococo and reflection : Gravelot, Hayman and Walker -- Bell, performance and reading -- 'Ornaments, derived from fancy' : illustrating the plays, 1780--1840 -- The growth of feeling : Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque -- The extra-illustrated edition -- Early Victorian populism : Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows -- Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement -- Decline and revival. |
| Summary |
"Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple images placed within the text of Victorian editions. Through symbols the illustrations have explored language and character; by allusion to earlier paintings they have offered critical readings; and by gesture, setting and costume they have redesigned the plays within the visual vocabulary of their own times. In all these ways they offer important exchanges with contemporary social, aesthetic and critical concerns, and, despite being largely ignored by scholars, are central to the plays' reception. Highly illustrated, including many images not previously reproduced, the book allows the reader to share the experience of early readers of the plays. Building on the author's earlier work in Painting Shakespeare it offers a fresh address to the tradition of visual criticism and assimilation of Shakespeare's plays."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Illustrations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. |
| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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| Subject |
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Art and literature. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Art in literature.
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Art in literature. |
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Visual perception in literature.
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Visual perception in literature. |
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English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- Illustrations.
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English drama -- 17th century -- Illustrations.
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English drama. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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1500-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Pictures.
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Pictures.
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| Added Author |
Sillars, Stuart, 1951-
Painting Shakespeare.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sillars, Stuart, 1951- Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521878371 (DLC) 2008025988 (OCoLC)232636452 |
| ISBN |
9781107336308 (electronic book) |
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1107336309 (electronic book) |
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9781107334649 |
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1107334640 |
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9781107332980 (e-book) |
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1107332982 (e-book) |
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9780521878371 |
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0521878373 |
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