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Genre/Form: | History Pictorial works |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Kiefer |
ISBN: | 0521827256 9780521827256 |
OCLC Number: | 51629717 |
Description: | xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Spring and winter in Love's Labour's Lost -- Revenge, murder, and rape in Titus Andronicus -- Rumour in 2 Henry IV -- Hecate and the witches in Macbeth -- The five senses in Timon of Athens -- Time and the deities in the late plays. |
Responsibility: | Frederick Kiefer. |
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'A handsomely illustrated and presented book.' Shakespeare at the Centre Magazine '... lavishly illustrated and interesting ... This book as a whole is stronger than its individual parts, and it is significant because it brings together all of Shakespeare's personified characters in a single story, allowing readers to see these figures as similar forms of theatrical and artistic representation.' MLR 'Frederick Kiefer's Shakespeare's Visual Theatre provides readers with a prime example of the power of informed conjectural readings based on extraliterary sources. ... This is a carefully researched and thoughtfully written examination of an important and neglected aspect of Shakespeare's drama. ... Kiefer's book has the capacity to reorient significantly current discussion of Renaissance English literature, dramatic and otherwise ... important and painstakingly detailed ...'. Sixteenth Century Journal Read more...


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