The illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 / Stuart Sillars.

By:

Sillars, Stuart, 1951-

Contributor(s):

Sillars, Stuart, 1951-. Painting Shakespeare

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781107336308
1107336309
9781107334649
1107334640
9781107332980
1107332982

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875.DDC classification:

822.3/3 22

LOC classification:

PR2883 .S44 2008eb

Other classification:

06.22
AN 35200
HI 3331
HI 3378

Online resources:

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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.

Review: "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

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"This work is built on the author's earlier work, Painting Shakespeare"--LC CIP on t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-374) and index.

"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

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