Jean-Louis Claret is Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille University, France, where he teaches Elizabethan drama. He is also an illustrator specialized in the representation of Shakespearean characters.
“In this deeply inventive, moving book, Jean-Louis Claret takes stock of forty years of passionate research on Shakespearean drama, offering a touchstone for a new literary humanism that treats Shakespeare’s texts as ‘invaluable manuals for life’. Picturing Shakespeare unveils how the generative capacity of Shakespeare’s visual language gives rise to mental performances, theatrical incarnations and pictorial illustrations.” —Marguerite A. Tassi, Professor of English, University of Nebraska, USA.