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Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Italian Influence book cover

1st Edition

Shakespeare and the Visual Arts The Italian Influence

By Michele Marrapodi Copyright 2017
424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge
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Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern period,... Read more

CONTENTS





List of Figures



Notes on Contributors



Acknowledgments



Introduction:



Timon of Athens. The Theatre and the Visual



Michele Marrapodi



PART I: INTERMEDIALITY: VISUALITY AND DRAMA





1 Shakespeare the Emblematist



Claudia Corti



2 Titus Andronicus and Renaissance Visual Culture: Contemporary Emblems of Hand and Ekphrasis



Paromita Deb



3 "All Adonises must die": Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and the Episodic Imaginary



Peter Latka





4 Shakespeare’s Octavia and Cleopatra: Between Stasis and Movement



Olivia Coulomb





5 Both Goddess and Woman: Cleopatra and Venus



Hanna Scolnicov



6 Vanishing Points and Horizons of Audience Perception in Shakespeare’s Late Plays Claire T. Guéron 　



PART II: SHAKESPEARE’S USE OF THE VISUAL



7 "Pencill’d pensiveness and colour’d sorrow": Italian Visual Arts and Ekphrastic Tension in Othello, Cymbeline, and Lucrece



Michele Marrapodi



8 "Wear this jewel for me, ’tis my picture": The Miniature in Shakespeare’s Work



Camilla Caporicci





9 The Charm of Decapitation: Medusa in Caravaggio and Measure for Measure



Rocco Coronato



10 ‘Those foundations which I build upon’: Construction and Misconstruction in The Winter’s Tale



Muriel Cunin





11 Shakespeare’s Genre Paintings



Anthony R. Guneratne





12 Verbal Painting by Means of Dance and Portraits



Necla Çikigil



PART III: REPRESENTING THE VISUAL ARTS



13 Painting and Representing Gender in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Spanish Contemporaries



José M. Gonzàlez



14 "Paint me in my gallery": Time, Perspective, and the Painter Addition to The Spanish Tragedy



Timothy A. Turner



15 Shakespearean Iconography: The Verbal-Visual Nexus to Serpents in Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Editions



Sandra Pietrini



16 Wladyslaw Czachòrski – A Polish Painter with Italian Soul and Shakespearean Vision: "Hamlet Receiving the Players"



Sabina Laskowska-Hinz





17 Julius Caesar: Shakespeare and the Ruins of Rome



Graham Holderness



Afterword:



Beginnings and Departures



Stuart Sillars





Bibliography





Index

Biography

Michele Marrapodi is Full Professor of English Language and Literature, and History of English Drama, in the Department of Scienze Umanistiche at the University of Palermo.

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