Sir leslie ward biography of william shakespeare
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Shakespeare and the Visual Arts - LAST MODIFIED: 19 February 2025
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0210
- LAST MODIFIED: 19 February 2025
- DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199846719-0210
Altick, Richard. Paintings from Books: Art and Literature in Britain, 1760–1900. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1985.
Valuable in linking Shakespeare images to other kinds of texts, best read alongside direct accounts such as the Cambridge guides, perhaps as a second level of investigation.
Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Like Altick 1985, this is an individual approach, but its strength lies in bringing together the three elements of the title.
Sillars, Stuart. Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720–1820. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
A chronological account of illustrated editions from their beginnings and their relationships with the texts featured. Probably the single-most detailed source for the period, fully illustrated with many in color. Includes separate chapters on Fuseli, Romney, Blake, Reynolds, and Boydell as well as lesser-known artists.
Sillars, Stuart. The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1707–1875. Cambridge, UK, and
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Leather. Condition: Very Good. C W Cope; W P Frith; C R Leslie; D Maclise; et al. (illustrator). A remarkable collection of two colossal volumes containing the illustrated works of the national bard William Shakespeare, as edited by Charles Knight. The Imperial edition. The Imperial edition of this remarkable work edited by Charles knight, containing the works of William Shakespeare. In two volumes. Dated from Jisc 1873-1876.Containing a complete collection of Shakespeare's works, as well the bard's carefully revised biography by Charles Knight bound in with volume two.Illustrated with stunning illustrations on steel from pictures by C W Cope, W P Frith, C R Leslie, et al.William Shakespeare is regarded to this day as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist; he is known as England's national poet and "the Bard of Avon." His plays have been translated in every major language, and performed a great amount. His works are studied and reinterpreted constantly. Volume I contains a notice of the original editions of the plays, comedies such as 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona,' 'The Taming of the Shrew,' 'A Midsummer night's Dream,' 'As You Like It,' &c. and histories such as '
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Oxfordian theory relief Shakespeare authorship
Alternative Shakespeare origination theory
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