02233nam a22003618a 4500 CR9781139342759 UkCbUP 20170926151945.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120306s2015||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139342759 (ebook) 9781107029958 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR3034 .S576 2015 822.3/3 23 Sillars, Stuart, author. Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination / Stuart Sillars. [electronic resource] Shakespeare & the Visual Imagination Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015. 1 online resource (333 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This book explores this relationship, showing how key works develop visual compositions as elements of dramatic movement, construction of ideas, and reflections on the artifice of theatre and language. The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream are explored in detail, offering new insights into their forms, themes, and place in European traditions. The use of emblems is examined in Titus Andronicus and As You Like It; studies of Venus and Adonis, some sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece reveal different but related visual aspects; a later chapter suggests how the new relation between seeing and soliloquy in The Rape of Lucrece is developed in other plays. Extensively illustrated, the book explores Shakespeare's assimilation and exploration of visual traditions in structure, theme and idea throughout the canon. Visual perception in literature Painting in literature Art and literature Print version: 9781107029958 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139342759 ddc BK 179129 179129