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Author Sillars, Stuart, 1951- author.

Title Shakespeare seen : image, performance and society / Stuart Sillars
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 3, 2019)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Aesthetics.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Aesthetics
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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