Global Shakespeare and Visual Art
Mario Murgia editor Islam Issa editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:14th Dec '26
£90.00
This title is due to be published on 14th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An assessment of how Shakespeare’s works and legacy have inspired artists around the world for centuries.
From paintings to sculptures and manga to street art, Global Shakespeare and Visual Art reveals how Shakespeare’s works and legacy have inspired artists around the world for centuries.
Global Shakespeare and Visual Art explores how William Shakespeare’s works and legacy have inspired artists around the world for centuries. This volume is a series of original studies on the aesthetic presence and interpretation of Shakespeare in such media as book illustrations, digital art, film, graphic novels, manga, portraiture, staged performance, sculpture, and stained glass. Focusing on the global reach of Shakespeare opens up the varied influences of his works on cultures past and present, especially in the context of globalization. By focusing on the contemporary interplay between early modern literature and visual culture, this book offers an inclusive view of intermedial translation and adaptation, coupled with critical explorations of Shakespearean global presence. The varied chapters consider Shakespeare’s plays and poetry in the context of their artistic afterlives, revealing an unparalleled cultural reach and fostering a broader appreciation of Shakespearean impact on global artistic traditions
From Zulu and Siberian wood sculptures to Turkish caricatures and Egyptian films; from to nineteenth-century Mexico to a colonial era fortress near the El Ain oasis in the UAE; from Délacroix to Doré to Millais and Kokoschka to Japanese manga; from stained glass “Shakespeare” windows in the former British colonies to futuristic spaceships and performing robots (doing the graveyard scene in Hamlet); from outlaw street art and public monuments in Birmingham to a Taylor Swift “Shakepop” video (“The Fate of Ophelia”), Islam Issa and Mario Murgia bring together essays by distinguished scholars that show us how Shakespeare has been seen in the past, how he is seen in popular culture today, and how we may imagine he’ll be seen in the future. This book is at once thought provoking and delightful to read. Through it, we “see” global Shakespeare with compound eyes. * Gordon Teskey, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University, USA *
ISBN: 9781666972955
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368 pages