Shakespeare's Artists
Subtitle: The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Published: Jan 25, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781350021938
Description: "This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare's plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare's work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite new profession that Shakespeare himself followed. A high valuation placed on art and artists, and at the same time certain fears of these and fears for these, made for a very complex reception of the figure of the artist, and Shakespeare's treatments were equal to that complexity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Source title: Shakespeare's Artists: The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems