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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 136
Utgivningsdatum: 2015-09-25
Förlag: Bodleian Library
Medarbetare: Bodleian Library
Illustratör/Fotograf: 40 colour illustrations
Illustrationer: 40 Illustrations, color
Dimensioner: 218 x 170 x 15 mm
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ISBN: 9781851244058

Portraits of Shakespeare

Name: Portraits of Shakespeare
Price: 254.00 SEK
Availability: InStock
Author: Katherine Duncan-Jones
ISBN: 9781851244058

av Katherine Duncan-Jones

Häftad, Engelska, 2015-09-25

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Within Shakespeares 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, Shakespeares 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 Duncan-Jones examines these questions, beginning with an analysis of the tradition of the author portrait before, during, and after Shakespeares life. She provides a detailed critique of the three images of Shakespeare likeliest to derive from life-time portrayals: the bust in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon; the Droeshout engraving from the First Folio edition of Shakespeares plays published in 1623; and the Chandos portrait, painted in oil on canvas in the early seventeenth century. Through a fresh exploration of the evidence and groundbreaking research, she identifies a plausible new candidate for the painter of Chandos. This also throws new light on the last years of Shakespeares life. This generously illustrated book also examines the afterlife of these three images, as memorials, in advertising and in graphic art, together with their adaptation in later commemorative statues: all evidence of a continuing desire to put a face to one of the most famous names in literature.

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"Every few years it seems, a newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare emerges, only to be discredited by scholars after the obligatory media maelstrom. Duncan-Jones offers her theories about why we don't have many images of the world's most famous playwright and tells us what's known about the images that we do have and how they came to be." -- "Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Unlimited podcast" (12/28/2015 12:00:00 AM) "Brilliant. . . . The portrait known as the Chandos was the first picture the National Portrait Gallery acquired at its foundation in 1856. . . . Although it had been obscure and in private hands since the seventeenth century, it came with a continuous provenance which further investigation has supported. Only the question of its authorship was troublesome. Duncan-Jones, threading her way carefully back through the marginalia of the historian George Vertue into the theatrical networks of Shakespeare's day has solved the mystery beyond reasonable doubt. . . . This is a major discovery." -- "London Review of Books" (12/28/2015 12:00:00 AM)

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 Shakespeares Sonnets (1997) and (with H.R. Woudhuysen) the same writers Poems (2007), both for the Arden Shakespeare series.