Shakespeare and the Visual Arts

Shakespeare and the Visual Arts
Author: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2017-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351815121

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern period, this volume’s tripartite structure considers instead the relationship between Renaissance material arts, theatre, and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre, explores the use and function of Italian visual culture in Shakespeare’s oeuvre, and questions the appropriation of the arts in the production of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By studying the intermediality between theatre and the visual arts, the volume extols drama as a hybrid genre, combining the figurative power of imagery with the plasticity of the acting process, and explains the tri-dimensional quality of the dramatic discourse in the verbal-visual interaction, the stagecraft of the performance, and the natural legacy of the iconographical topoi of painting’s cognitive structures. This methodolical approach opens up a new perspective in the intermedial construction of Shakespearean and early modern drama, extending the concept of theatrical intertextuality to the field of pictorial arts and their social-cultural resonance. An afterword written by an expert in the field, a rich bibliography of primary and secondary literature, and a detailed Index round off the volume.

Shakespeare Seen

Shakespeare Seen
Author: Stuart Sillars
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1107193249

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

Publication

Publication
Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher:
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1919
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