Portraits of Shakespeare

Author:   Katherine Duncan-Jones (Somerville College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Bodleian Library
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9781851244058


Pages:   136
Publication Date:   25 September 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Katherine Duncan-Jones (Somerville College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Bodleian Library
Imprint:   Bodleian Library
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.458kg
ISBN:  

9781851244058


ISBN 10:   1851244050
Pages:   136
Publication Date:   25 September 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""Brilliant. . . . The portrait known as the Chandos was the first picture the National Portrait Gallery acquired at its foundation in 1856. . . . Although it had been obscure and in private hands since the seventeenth century, it came with a continuous provenance which further investigation has supported. Only the question of its authorship was troublesome. Duncan-Jones, threading her way carefully back through the marginalia of the historian George Vertue into the theatrical networks of Shakespeare's day has solved the mystery beyond reasonable doubt. . . . This is a major discovery."" -- ""London Review of Books"" (12/28/2015 12:00:00 AM) ""Every few years it seems, a newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare emerges, only to be discredited by scholars after the obligatory media maelstrom. Duncan-Jones offers her theories about why we don't have many images of the world's most famous playwright and tells us what's known about the images that we do have and how they came to be."" -- ""Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Unlimited podcast"" (12/28/2015 12:00:00 AM)"


Every few years it seems, a newly discovered portrait of Shakespeare emerges, only to be discredited by scholars after the obligatory media maelstrom. Duncan-Jones offers her theories about why we don't have many images of the world's most famous playwright and tells us what's known about the images that we do have and how they came to be. -- (12/28/2015) Brilliant. . . . The portrait known as the Chandos was the first picture the National Portrait Gallery acquired at its foundation in 1856. . . . Although it had been obscure and in private hands since the seventeenth century, it came with a continuous provenance which further investigation has supported. Only the question of its authorship was troublesome. Duncan-Jones, threading her way carefully back through the marginalia of the historian George Vertue into the theatrical networks of Shakespeare's day has solved the mystery beyond reasonable doubt. . . . This is a major discovery. -- (12/28/2015)


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Katherine Duncan-Jones is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She has written biographies of Sir Philip Sidney (1991) and Shakespeare (2001; revised edition, 2010); and has edited Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997) and (with H.R. Woudhuysen) the same writer's Poems (2007), both for the Arden Shakespeare series.

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