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Book O Sweet Mr  Shakespeare  I ll Have His Picture

Download or read book O Sweet Mr Shakespeare I ll Have His Picture written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by 1964. This book was released on 1964 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book O Sweet Mr  Shakespeare I ll have his Picture  The changing image of Shakespeare s person  1600 1800   With portraits

Download or read book O Sweet Mr Shakespeare I ll have his Picture The changing image of Shakespeare s person 1600 1800 With portraits written by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book O Sweet Mr  Shakespeare I ll Have this Picture

Download or read book O Sweet Mr Shakespeare I ll Have this Picture written by National Portrait Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book O Sweet Mr  Shekespeare  I ll Have His Picture

Download or read book O Sweet Mr Shekespeare I ll Have His Picture written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Face

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephanie Nolen
  • Publisher : Vintage Canada
  • Release : 2011-04-13
  • ISBN : 0307366510
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Face written by Stephanie Nolen and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 11, 2001, Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen announced a stunning discovery to the world: an attractive portrait held by an Ontario family for twelve generations, which may well be the only known portrait of Shakespeare painted during his lifetime. Shakespeare’s Face is the biography of a portrait — a literary mystery story — and the furious debate that has ensued since its discovery. A slip of paper affixed to the back proclaims “Shakespere. This likeness taken 1603, Age at that time 39 ys.” But is it really Shakespeare who peers at us from the small oil on wood painting? The twinkling eyes, reddish hair, and green jacket are not in keeping with the duller, traditional images of the bard. But they are more suggestive of the humorous and humane man who wrote the greatest plays in the English language. Shakespeare’s Face tells the riveting story of how the painting came to reside in the home of a retired engineer in a mid-sized Ontario town. The painting is reputed to be by John Sanders of Worcester, England. As a retirement project, the engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, embarked on authenticating the portrait: the forensic analyses that followed have proven it without doubt to the period. In a remarkable publishing coup, Knopf Canada has gathered around Stephanie Nolen’s story a group of the world’s leading Shakespeare scholars and art and cultural historians to delve into one of the most fascinating literary mysteries of our times: “Is this the face of genius?” Excerpt from Chapter 1 of Shakespeare’s Face by Stephanie Nolen By the late afternoon I was beginning to go a little cross-eyed. I had examined countless documents and read the test results from the painting’s painstaking forensic analysis. I now had everything I needed to write my story — except for one crucial item. “Is he here?” I asked, almost in a whisper.... The owner laid the package carefully on the cluttered table. He gently pulled back the kraft paper wrapping, underneath which was a layer of bubble wrap. Then he peeled back this second layer to reveal his treasure. I was caught off-guard by how small the portrait was — and how vivid. The colours in the paint seemed too rich to be 400 years old. Except for the hairline cracks in the varnish, the face could have been painted yesterday. And there was nothing austere or haughty about it, nothing of the great man being painted for posterity. It was a rogue’s face, a charmer’s face that looked back at me with a tolerant, mischievous slightly world-weary air.... It was painted on two pieces of solid board so expertly joined that the seam was barely visible. A date, “Ano 1603”, was painted in small red letters in the top right hand corner. The right side had been nibbled by woodworms.... I stood and gazed, quelling an instinctive urge to pick the portrait up and hold it in my hands. And as my professional skepticism crumpled for a moment, I found myself wanting desperately to believe that this was indeed Shakespeare’s face.

Book Sexual Shakespeare

Download or read book Sexual Shakespeare written by Michael Keevak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes, imitations, forgeries, spurious works and portraits to show that this ambiguity has a long and twisted history.

Book A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare

Download or read book A Selective Bibliography of Shakespeare written by James G. McManaway and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1978-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides easy access to the most important Shakespeare studies in the past four decades. Brief annotations, a detailed table of contents, cross-references, and a complete index make this bibliography especially useful.

Book William Shakespeare

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : PediaPress
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book William Shakespeare written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edmond Malone  Shakespearean Scholar

Download or read book Edmond Malone Shakespearean Scholar written by Peter Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern full-length biography of scholar and member of late eighteenth-century intellectual elite.

Book The English Virtuoso

    Book Details:
  • Author : Craig A. Hanson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2009-05-15
  • ISBN : 0226315878
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The English Virtuoso written by Craig A. Hanson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to overturn 20th-century criticism that cast the English virtuosi of the 17th and early 18th centuries as misguided dabblers, arguing that they were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts and sincere curiosity about the natural world.

Book Shakespeare and the Visual Arts

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Visual Arts written by Holger Klein and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual deals with all aspects of Shakespeare and his period, with particular emphases on theatre-orientated, comparative and interdisciplinary studies. This volume compiles essays on Shakespeare and his effect on the visual arts.

Book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Download or read book Eighteenth century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art written by Indianapolis Museum of Art and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This very thorough catalogue, with excellent footnotes and bibliography, firmly places the subject in its broadest context." --Apollo Covers approximately 95 pieces, representing Chelsea, Bow, Derby, Worcester, Chamberlain-Worcester, Caughley, Longton Hall, Spode, and Hilditch and Sons.

Book The Making of the Modern Self

Download or read book The Making of the Modern Self written by Dror Wahrman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of Great Code, but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares the methods by which the official interpreters of the Bible and the Constitution - the Christian Church and the Supreme Court, respectively - have approached the necessity of interpreting, and reinterpreting, their important texts. In spite of obvious differences, both texts require close, word-by-word exegesis, an awareness of opinions that have gone before, and a willingness to ask new questions of old codes, Pelikan observes. He probes for answers to the question of what makes something authentically constitutional or biblical, and he demonstrates how an understanding of either biblical interpretation or constitutional interpretation can illuminate the other in important ways.

Book The True Face of William Shakespeare

Download or read book The True Face of William Shakespeare written by Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a convincing solution to the centuries-old problem of the appearance and identity of William Shakespeare and answers previously open questions concerning what made him abandon his celebrated career, and what may have caused his death.

Book Shakespeare Quarterly

Download or read book Shakespeare Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.

Book Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Download or read book Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by Charles Nicholl and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare belonged to a talented and influential group of writers, poets and dramatists, all of whom are illustrated throughout with portraits, engravings and documents, showing how these writers saw themselves, and how Elizabethan society valued literary talent as well