Searching for Shakespeare Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2006. Description: 239 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN: 030011611X; 9780300116113Subject(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Exhibitions | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Expositions | Portrait painting, English -- 16th century | Portrait painting, English -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 822.33 Other classification: 18.05 | 20.21 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Accompanies the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March 2-May 29, 2006, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, June 24-September 27, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.
'Sweet master Shakespeare': 1564-1616 / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's professional world / James Shapiro -- Silent 'oratory': portrait painting in England around 1600 / Tarnya Cooper -- Catalogue: Shakespeare's face: his known likeness -- Likeness and myth: the search for Shakespeare's portrait -- The early years: Shakespeare's family and his life in Stratford-upon-Avon -- Elizabethan theatre: London playhouses in the 1580s -- The established playwright: patrons and players, wealth and reputation -- At court: the Essex Rebellion and the king's men -- Poets and playwrights: Shakespeare's contemporaries -- Death and legacy: the will and the plays -- National identity and the afterlife of Shakespeare's portraits / Marcia Pointon.
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