Shakespeare and the Power of the Face

ISBN-13: 9780367879976 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

James A. Knapp

Opis

As contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions to facial expressions and features. An analysis of Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the context in which he wrote, and for the ongoing interpretation and production of the plays. By bringing toge

Spis treści

Shakespeare and the power of the face.  Part 1 Powerful Faces:  'Thy face is mine': faces and fascination in Shakespeare's plays.  Fashioning the face: embodiment and desire in early modern poetry.  Facing marital cruelty in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and early modern London.  Part 2 Signifying Faces:  The two faces of Othello.  Facing King Lear.  Complex complexions: the facial signification of the black other in Lust's Dominion.  Part 3 Staged Faces  'I knew by his face there was something in him': buried stage directions and authorial control.  The play of looks: audience and the force of the early modern face.  'The counterfeit presentment of two brothers': the power of portraits in Hamlet.  'This painting wherein you see me smeared': Francis Bacon, Coriolanus, and the brutality of facialization.

 

O autorze

James A. Knapp is Associate Professor and Edward Surtz, S.J. Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago. He is also author of Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England and Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser.