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Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature
John H. Astington
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Description for Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature
hardcover. This book demonstrates the pervading influence of visual art in the composition, production and reception of Renaissance English drama. Num Pages: 350 pages, 52 b/w illus. 12 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; ACND; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174. .
This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut prints, John H. Astington shows how English drama drew heavily on this imagery to stimulate the imagination of the audience. He analyses the intersection of the theatrical and the visual through such topics as Shakespeare's Roman plays and the contemporary interest in Roman architecture and sculpture; the central myth of Troy and its widely recognised ... Read more
This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut prints, John H. Astington shows how English drama drew heavily on this imagery to stimulate the imagination of the audience. He analyses the intersection of the theatrical and the visual through such topics as Shakespeare's Roman plays and the contemporary interest in Roman architecture and sculpture; the central myth of Troy and its widely recognised ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107121430
SKU
V9781107121430
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Ref
99-14
About John H. Astington
John H. Astington is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. His many publications centre on the theatre of the Renaissance and its cultural contexts, and his books include English Court Theatre 1558-1642 (Cambridge, 1999) and Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time (Cambridge, 2010).
Reviews for Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature
'Concentrating on patterns of pictorial meaning as they are produced by drama as well as art, Astington examines the wide contexts of visual meaning within this period. From fine art, woodcuts, illustrations, design, tapestries and emblems to the ways in which images of theatres were reproduced and circulated, he establishes the extraordinary range and depth of Tudor and Stuart visual ... Read more