Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most
extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the
frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple
images placed within the text of Victorian editions. Through
symbols the illustrations have explored language and character; by
allusion to earlier paintings they have offered critical readings;
and by gesture, setting and costume they have redesigned the plays
within the visual vocabulary of their own times. In all these ways
they offer important exchanges with contemporary social, aesthetic
and critical concerns, and, despite being largely ignored by
scholars, are central to the plays' reception. Highly illustrated,
including many images not previously reproduced, the book allows
the reader to share the experience of early readers of the plays.
Building on the author's earlier work in Painting Shakespeare it
offers a fresh address to the tradition of visual criticism and
assimilation of Shakespeare's plays.
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