- 307 pages
- English
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About this book
This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context. Focusing on five Shakespearean plays, she situates their preoccupation with issues of viewpoint in relation to a range of artistic forms and topics from miniatures to masques.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliographical Note
- Preface
- 1 Alberti, As You Like It, and the Process of Invention
- 2 English Beholders and the Art of Perspective
- 3 Ut Pictura Poesis and the Rhetoric of Perspective
- 4 Hamlet and the Art of Looking Diversely on the Self
- 5 Troilus and Cressida, ‘ Imagin’d Worth’ and the ‘Bifold Authority’ of Anamorphosis
- 6 Antony and Cleopatra and the Art of Dislimning
- 7 The Tempest and theArt of Masque
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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