Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama de Keir Elam

Shakespeare's Pictures: Visual Objects in the Drama

Autor Keir Elam
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2017
Shakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, among others) pictures are brought on stage - in the form of portraits or other images - as part of the dramatic action. Shakespeare's characters show, exchange and describe them. The pictures arouse in their beholders strong feelings, of desire, nostalgia or contempt, and sometimes even taking the place of the people they depict.The pictures presented in Shakespeare's work are part of the language of the drama, and they have a significant impact on theatrical performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own. Keir Elam pays close attention to the iconographic and literary contexts of Shakespeare's pictures while also exploring their role in performance history. Highly illustrated with 46 images, this volume examines the conflicted cooperation between the visual and the verbal.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 23098 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 20 mar 2019 23098 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 65444 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 20 sep 2017 65444 lei  6-8 săpt.

Preț: 65444 lei

Preț vechi: 94311 lei
-31% Nou

Puncte Express: 982
Preț estimativ în valută:
12527€ • 13135$ • 10350£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 29 ianuarie-12 februarie 25

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408179758
ISBN-10: 140817975X
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: 48 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția The Arden Shakespeare
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

This book offers new insights into canonical plays such as Hamlet, Twelfth Night and The Tempest

Notă biografică

Keir Elam is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is resident member of the Institute for Advanced Studies and evaluator for the Humanities in the University Research Observatory (Osservatorio della Ricerca). He is the editor of the Arden Third Series edition of Twelfth Night.

Cuprins

Introduction 1. Doing things with pictures 2. Wanton pictures: Intermedial intercourse in The Taming of the Shrew 3. Pictures in boxes: Containers and contained in The Merchant of Venice 4. Hamlet as portrait: A shadow's shadow 5. "That is and is not": The double life of images in Twelfth Night Afterimage: The queen's picture Appendix: Shakespeare's iconographic lexicon References Index

Recenzii

Highly nuanced in its close readings of key moments ... Equally adept in his use of historical sources and his deployment of modern theories of 'performativity', Elam is a stylish guide through the Shakespearean picture gallery.
[Elam's] book offers a number of interesting readings, an astute account of relevant artistic and literary developments, together with a lively sense of early modern history.
Elam's monograph is lucid and insightful; its scholarship and presentation combine to make it a highly informative and enjoyable read.
Offers sharply focused observations about the workings of picture in each individual play, especially the construction of pictures via characters' imaginations.
Elam's textured, historically informed, jargon-free readings will persuade his readers of the serious pragmatic and semiotic functions of pictures in Shakespeare's plays.
Original, engaging, highly innovative and richly researched, this book makes a valuable contribution to the field as the first interdisciplinary study which provides a concentrated and sustained focus on the use of physical "pictures" in Shakespeare's drama. The readings of the individual plays are breathtakingly deft, a tour de force interweaving of image theory, material culture, performance practice and textual analysis. The depth of the research, the illuminating illustrations and a handy glossary of "Shakespeare's Iconographic Lexicon", make this book a bejewelled cabinet of wonders for the discerning reader, from undergraduate level upwards.