Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters

Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters

by Frederick Kiefer
ISBN-10:
0521827256
ISBN-13:
9780521827256
Pub. Date:
09/25/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521827256
ISBN-13:
9780521827256
Pub. Date:
09/25/2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters

Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters

by Frederick Kiefer

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Overview

Frederick Kiefer looks at the personified characters created by Shakespeare in his plays (his walking, talking abstractions) in this study of Shakespeare's visual culture. These include Rumour in 2 Henry IV, Time in The Winter's Tale, Spring and Winter in Love's Labour's Lost, Revenge in Titus Andronicus, and the deities in the late plays. Kiefer reconstructs their appearances; explains the symbolism of their costumes and props; and assesses their significance for the plays in which they appear.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521827256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/25/2003
Pages: 374
Product dimensions: 6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Frederick Kiefer is Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is the author of Fortune and Elizabethan Tragedy (1983) and Writing on the Renaissance Stage: Written Words, Printed Pages, Metaphoric Books (1996).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of illustrations; 1. Spring and winter in Love's Labour's Lost; 2. Revenge, murder, and rape in Titus Andronicus; 3. Rumour in 2 Henry IV; 4. Hecate and the witches in Macbeth; 5. The five senses in Timon of Athens; 6. Time and the deities in the late plays; Conclusion; Select bibliography.
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