Still Shakespeare and the photography of performance / Sally Barnden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnden, Sally, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Standardized Title:

Still Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Dramatic production.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Stage photography.

Theater.

Physical Description:

xiv, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"'When Shakespeare said it, it was true: 'These our actors ... are melted into air.' True no longer.' So claims the back cover of a book of stage photographs by John Haynes, published in 1986. The publication of a book of theatrical photographs, some of them - though by no means all - representing performances of Shakespeare's plays, is here positioned as a solution to the tendency of performance to disappear when the curtain falls. Photography, it is suggested, can at last prove Shakespeare wrong: the actors will not be allowed to melt into thin air, but instead will be retained in the form of their photographic images, caught in the attitudes of stage performance. Photography and Shakespeare are here pitted against one another"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : 'Leave not a rack behind'

Liveness, documentation, and the RSC's Dreams, 1954-77

Photographing the past in the theatre of Charles Kean

Julia Margaret Cameron, sympathetic Shakespeare and photographic afterlives

'Too much of water' : Ophelia, photography, dissolution

Poor Yorick : the photograph as memento mori.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--King's College London, 2016, titled Still Shakespeare : performance, photography, and the limits of the Shakespearean, 1850-2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnden, Sally. Still Shakespeare and the photography of performance.

ISBN:

9781108487931

1108487939

OCLC:

1112139156