Shakespeare's Pictures

Shakespeare's Pictures
Author: Keir Elam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1408179776

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Shakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, among others) pictures are brought on stage - in the form of portraits or other images - as part of the dramatic action. Shakespeare's characters show, exchange and describe them. The pictures arouse in their beholders strong feelings, of desire, nostalgia or contempt, and sometimes even taking the place of the people they depict. The pictures presented in Shakespeare's work are part of the language of the drama, and they have a significant impact on theatrical performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own. Keir Elam pays close attention to the iconographic and literary contexts of Shakespeare's pictures while also exploring their role in performance history. Highly illustrated with 46 images, this volume examines the conflicted cooperation between the visual and the verbal.

Shakespeare's Face

Shakespeare's Face
Author: Stephanie Nolen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2010-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1451603894

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A fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life. When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world. Now, in this provocative biography of the portrait, she tells the riveting story of how a rare image of the young Bard at thirty-nine came to reside in the suburban home of a retired engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, and how he embarked on authenticating it. The ultimate Antiques Roadshow dream, the portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around 1600, and it has not been altered since.

Shakespeare and the Visual Arts

Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
Author: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 135181513X

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Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern period, this volume’s tripartite structure considers the relationship between Renaissance material arts, theatre, and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre, explores the use and function of Italian visual culture in Shakespeare’s oeuvre, and questions the appropriation of the arts in the production of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An afterword, a rich bibliography of primary and secondary literature, and a detailed Index round off the volume.

William Shakespeare & the Globe

William Shakespeare & the Globe
Author: Aliki
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2000-08-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0064437221

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From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us
Author: Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1935
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521092586

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An analysis of the ways in which Shakespeare's imagery functions to reveal literary and personal motives.

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
Author: Sally Barnden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2019-12-19
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1108487939

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Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

In Our Own Image: Fictional Representations of William Shakespeare

In Our Own Image: Fictional Representations of William Shakespeare
Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Total Pages: 344
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN: 8024456834

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This publication looks at fictional portrayals of William Shakespeare with a focus on novels, short stories, plays, occasional poems, films, television series and even comics. In terms of time span, the analysis covers the entire twentieth century and ends in the present-day. The authors included range from well-known figures (G.B. Shaw, Kipling, Joyce) to more obscure writers. The depictions of Shakespeare are varied to say the least, with even interpretations giving credence to the Oxfordian theory and feminist readings involving a Shakespearian sister of sorts. The main argument is that readings of Shakespeare almost always inform us more about the particular author writing the specific work than about the historical personage.

Shakespeare’s Serial Returns in Complex TV

Shakespeare’s Serial Returns in Complex TV
Author: Christina Wald
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030468518

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This book examines how Shakespeare’s plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeare’s texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of democracy, terrorism, and postcolonial justice. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational constellations and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.