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Picturing Shakespeare

Jean-Louis CLARET

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English
Anthem Press
07 May 2024
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare's texts

obviously destined for stage performances

to generate images and mental colours in the readers' and in the spectators' minds.

Such notions as Ut pictura poesis and the paragone are discussed in the first part of this book, along with the function and nature of colours. After considering the sets of correspondences and the major differences between texts and images, the author presents and analyzes some of his own illustrations of Shakespearean characters.

Jean-Louis Claret, both a university professor specialised in Shakespeare's theatre and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that led him from the perusal of the written text to the visualization of visages. The voice of poets is unconventionally called upon to shed light on the complex mechanisms he describes.
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Imprint:   Anthem Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 153mm,  Spine: 11mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781839990601
ISBN 10:   1839990600
Series:   Anthem Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Pages:   196
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Picturing Shakespeare

“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.


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