Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Since the invention of the camera, photography has played a significant role in shaping how we perceive Shakespeare's works. Barnden explores how photography has influenced the reception of Shakespeare's plays, documenting performances and influencing interpretations through its vehicles of Shakespearean iconography. It demonstrates how images become attached to narratives beyond their original context, contributing to the calcification of Shakespearean art, advertising, and iconography.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 18 August 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Since the invention of the camera, Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance has explored the role
Since the invention of the camera, Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance has explored the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance, and Shakespearean character, and how their dissemination has affected Shakespearean. Barnden reveals how photography has conditioned the reception of Shakespeare's works in two key ways. Firstly, as a form of performance documentation, photographs shape the way individual performances are remembered and their positioning in relation to traditional and iconoclastic interpretations of the text. Secondly, photographs are vehicles of Shakespearean iconography, encouraging certain compositions and interpretations. Exploring both theatrical and staged art photographs, Still Shakespeare demonstrates the role of photography as a contributor to the calcification of Shakespearean, advertising, and iconography, and to the attrition of the relationship between image and text, whereby images become attached to narratives far beyond their original context.

Since the invention of the camera, Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance has explored the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon, looking at how photographic images have shaped perceptions of historicity, performance, and Shakespearean character, and how their dissemination has affected Shakespearean.

Barnden reveals how photography has conditioned the reception of Shakespeare's works in two key ways.

Firstly, as a form of performance documentation, photographs shape the way individual performances are remembered and their positioning in relation to traditional and iconoclastic interpretations of the text.

Secondly, photographs are vehicles of Shakespearean iconography, encouraging certain compositions and interpretations.

Exploring both theatrical and staged art photographs, Still Shakespeare demonstrates the role of photography as a contributor to the calcification of Shakespearean, advertising, and iconography, and to the attrition of the relationship between image and text, whereby images become attached to narratives far beyond their original context.

Weight: 359g
ISBN-13: 9781108738255