Author: Clara Longworth comtesse de ChambrunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Shakespeare: a Portrait Restored
Author: Clara Longworth comtesse de ChambrunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Citizen Shakespeare
Author: James C. HumesPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761820499
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Humes (language and leadership, U. of Southern Colorado) gathers together information about Shakespeare's biography and relates it the political and social events of England and the authors' plays. The volume is intended to portray Shakespeare to students as a real man whose concerns were reflected in his writings. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Searching for Shakespeare
Author: Tarnya CooperPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030011611X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Investigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his contemporaries.
A Study of Shakespeare's Portraits
Author: William PageThe Portraits of Shakespeare
Author: Joseph Parker NorrisA Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Discover the life and works of William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English language and the pre-eminent dramatist of all time. Sidney Lee, a leading Shakespearean scholar and editor, presents a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's life, from his birth and upbringing in Stratford-upon-Avon, to his successful career as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company in London, and his later retirement in Stratford. Lee illuminates Shakespeare's genius through his plays, sonnets, and other works, showcasing his unparalleled knowledge of human character, wealth of humor, depth of passion, fertility of fancy, and soundness of judgment. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the life and legacy of the Bard of Avon.
Shakespeare's Face
Author: Stephanie NolenPublisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307366510
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
On May 11, 2001, Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen announced a stunning discovery to the world: an attractive portrait held by an Ontario family for twelve generations, which may well be the only known portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. Shakespeare’s Face is the biography of a portrait — a literary mystery story — and the furious debate that has ensued since its discovery. A slip of paper affixed to the back proclaims “Shakespere. This likeness taken 1603, Age at that time 39 ys.” But is it really Shakespeare who peers at us from the small oil on wood painting? The twinkling eyes, reddish hair, and green jacket are not in keeping with the duller, traditional images of the bard. But they are more suggestive of the humorous and humane man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language. Shakespeare’s Face tells the riveting story of how the painting came to reside in the home of a retired engineer in a mid-sized Ontario town. The painting is reputed to be by John Sanders of Worcester, England. As a retirement project, the engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, embarked on authenticating the portrait: the forensic analyses that followed have proven it without doubt to the period. In a remarkable publishing coup, Knopf Canada has gathered around Stephanie Nolen’s story a group of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars and art and cultural historians to delve into one of the most fascinating literary mysteries of our times: “Is this the face of genius?” Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Shakespeare’s Face by Stephanie Nolen By the late afternoon I was beginning to go a little cross-eyed. I had examined countless documents and read the test results from the painting’s painstaking forensic analysis. I now had everything I needed to write my story — except for one crucial item. “Is he here?” I asked, almost in a whisper.... The owner laid the package carefully on the cluttered table. He gently pulled back the kraft paper wrapping, underneath which was a layer of bubble wrap. Then he peeled back this second layer to reveal his treasure. I was caught off-guard by how small the portrait was — and how vivid. The colours in the paint seemed too rich to be 400 years old. Except for the hairline cracks in the varnish, the face could have been painted yesterday. And there was nothing austere or haughty about it, nothing of the great man being painted for posterity. It was a rogue’s face, a charmer’s face that looked back at me with a tolerant, mischievous slightly world-weary air.... It was painted on two pieces of solid board so expertly joined that the seam was barely visible. A date, “Ano 1603”, was painted in small red letters in the top right hand corner. The right side had been nibbled by woodworms.... I stood and gazed, quelling an instinctive urge to pick the portrait up and hold it in my hands. And as my professional skepticism crumpled for a moment, I found myself wanting desperately to believe that this was indeed Shakespeare’s face.
Sexual Shakespeare
Author: Michael KeevakPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Author: Oscar WildePortraits of Shakespeare
Author: Katherine Duncan-JonesPublisher: Bodleian Library
ISBN: 9781851244058
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Within Shakespeare's 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, Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's 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 Shakespeare's 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." --Publisher description.