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Author Sillars, Stuart, 1951-

Title The illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 / Stuart Sillars
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
Notes "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
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Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Illustrations.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William. swd
Subject Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Art in literature.
Visual perception in literature.
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- Illustrations
English drama -- 17th century -- Illustrations
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
Art and literature
Art in literature
English drama
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Visual perception in literature
Illustration
Drama
Illustraties.
Boekkunst.
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland.
Genre/Form History
Illustrated works
Form Electronic book
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