Shakespeare Seen

Image, Performance and Society

Stuart Sillars (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway)

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English

Cambridge University Press
20 December 2018

History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Human figures depicted in art; Theatre Studies; Shakespeare studies & criticism

This wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare's plays. Covering a rich chronological terrain, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the midpoint of the nineteenth, Stuart Sillars offers a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach to reading Shakespeare in relation to image, history, text, book history, print culture and performance. The volume begins by relating the production imagery of Shakespeare's plays to other visual forms and their social frames, before discussing the design and operation of illustrated editions and the 'performance readings' they offer, and analysing the practical and theoretical foundations of easel paintings. Close readings of The Comedy of Errors, King Lear, the Roman plays, The Merchant of Venice and Othello provide detailed insight into how the plays have been represented visually, and are accompanied by numerous illustrations and a beautiful colour plate section.

By: Stuart Sillars (Universitetet i Bergen Norway)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 195mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 1.030kg
ISBN: 9781107193246
ISBN 10: 1107193249
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 20 December 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stuart Sillars is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, and the author of several books and many articles on the relations between word and image, including four previous volumes on Shakespeare and visual art published by Cambridge University Press.

Reviews for Shakespeare Seen: Image, Performance and Society

'This is a remarkable and important study of the visual dimension of Shakespeare and has implications far beyond the historical period addressed. The scholarship is impeccable and while the argument of the book is magnificently lucid, it is prosecuted with admirable subtlety.' Dympna C. Callahan, Syracuse University, New York 'Stuart Sillars offers a model of careful interpretation, of these images' idiom and taste, their devices, in constant reference to the plays themselves and contemporaneous performance ... both his methods and terms will prove valuable to those wishing to understand the relationship between Shakespeare as performed and as seen.' The Times Literary Supplement 'This is a remarkable and important study of the visual dimension of Shakespeare and has implications far beyond the historical period addressed. The scholarship is impeccable and while the argument of the book is magnificently lucid, it is prosecuted with admirable subtlety.' Dympna C. Callahan, Syracuse University, New York 'Stuart Sillars offers a model of careful interpretation, of these images' idiom and taste, their devices, in constant reference to the plays themselves and contemporaneous performance ... both his methods and terms will prove valuable to those wishing to understand the relationship between Shakespeare as performed and as seen.' The Times Literary Supplement