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By Keir Elam

ISBN-10: 140817975X

ISBN-13: 9781408179758

Keir Elam's publication is the 1st full-length learn of the position of photo and iconographic photographs in Shakespeare and references functionality historical past all through. Chapters learn performs within which photos are caused level as a part of the dramatic motion (Hamlet, The service provider of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, 12th Night, between others); the embedding of pictures from the preferred mind's eye within the motion and discourse of the performs; the dialectic among optical and auditory phantasm within the romance or overdue performs, or "how" the visible is "heard" within the theatre, and the query of viewpoint within the comedies, specially Twelfth Night. The publication covers the various so much canonical and studied of Shakespeare's performs, giving new severe perception and argument.

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