Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312226572)

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.

Author: A. Thorne
ISBN-10: 0312226578
ISBN-13: 9780312226572
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2000
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.65w x 0.93d