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The illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875 /

"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 explor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sillars, Stuart, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Play, page and image
  • Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare
  • Rococo and reflection : Gravelot, Hayman and Walker
  • Bell, performance and reading
  • 'Ornaments, derived from fancy' : illustrating the plays, 1780--1840
  • The growth of feeling : Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque
  • The extra-illustrated edition
  • Early Victorian populism : Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows
  • Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement
  • Decline and revival.