Shakespeare and the Visual Arts: The Italian Influence

ISBN-13: 9780367667931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 408 str.

Michele Marrapodi

Opis

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, this volume’s tripartite structure considers the relationship between Renaissance material arts, theatre, and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre, explores the use and fu

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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

O autorze

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.