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Portraits of Shakespeare
Katherine Duncan-Jones
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Description for Portraits of Shakespeare
Paperback. Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. This generously illustrated book offers a new perspective on Shakespeare likenesses, as well as exploring the afterlife of these images. Num Pages: 136 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
Within Shakespeare’s lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare’s appearance is mysterious.
Why is it so difficult to find images of him that were definitely made during his life? Which images are most likely to have been made by those close to Shakespeare, and why do these differ from each other? Also, why do newly ‘discovered’ images claimed as representations of the playwright emerge with such regularity?
Shakespeare scholar Katherine ... Read more
Within Shakespeare’s lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare’s appearance is mysterious.
Why is it so difficult to find images of him that were definitely made during his life? Which images are most likely to have been made by those close to Shakespeare, and why do these differ from each other? Also, why do newly ‘discovered’ images claimed as representations of the playwright emerge with such regularity?
Shakespeare scholar Katherine ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244058
SKU
V9781851244058
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99-50
About Katherine Duncan-Jones
Katherine Duncan-Jones is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She has written biographies of Sir Philip Sidney (1991) and Shakespeare (2001; revised edition, 2010); and has edited Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997) and (with H.R. Woudhuysen) the same writer’s Poems (2007), both for the Arden Shakespeare series.
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