Stuart Sillars

The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A complete study of the history and tradition of illustrated editions of Shakespeare, containing 167 illustrative images from major editions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1008g
• ISBN-13: 9780521878371
• ISBN-10: 0521878373
• Artikelnr.: 25427119

Autorenporträt

Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Play, page and image
2. Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare
3. Rococo and reflection: Gravelot, Hayman and Walker
4. Bell, performance and reading
5. 'Ornaments, derived from fancy': illustrating the plays, 1780-1840
6. The growth of feeling: Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque
7 The extra-illustrated edition
8. Early Victorian populism: Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows
9. Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement
10. Decline and revival.