Shakespeare's pictures : visual objects in the drama / Keir Elam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elam, Keir, author.

Series:

Arden Shakespeare (Critical studies)

Drama & performance studies (Bloomsbury)

The Arden Shakespeare

Drama & performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pictures in the theater.

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

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"Keir Elam's book is the first full-length study of the role of graphic and iconographic images in Shakespeare and references performance history throughout. Chapters examine plays in which pictures are brought on stage as part of the dramatic action (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night, among others); the embedding of images from the popular imagination in the action and discourse of the plays; the dialectic between optical and auditory illusion in the romance or late plays, or "how" the visual is "heard" in the theatre, and the question of perspective in the comedies, especially Twelfth Night. The book covers many of the most canonical and studied of Shakespeare's plays, giving new critical insight and argument. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Doing things with pictures

Wanton pictures: intermedial intercourse in The taming of the shrew

Pictures in boxes: containers and contained in The merchant of Venice

Hamlet as portrait: a shadow's shadow

"That is and is not": the double life of images in Twelfth night

Afterimage: the queens's picture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781408179789

1408179784

9781408179772

1408179776

9781408179765

1408179768

OCLC:

1201425891