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Highly nuanced in its close readings of key moments ... Equally adept in his use of historical sources and his deployment of modern theories of 'performativity', Elam is a stylish guide through the Shakespearean picture gallery. * Times Literary Supplement * [Elam's] book offers a number of interesting readings, an astute account of relevant artistic and literary developments, together with a lively sense of early modern history. * The Review of English Studies * Elam's monograph is lucid and insightful; its scholarship and presentation combine to make it a highly informative and enjoyable read. * The Year's Work in English Studies * Offers sharply focused observations about the workings of picture in each individual play, especially the construction of pictures via characters' imaginations. * Shakespeare Studies * Elam's textured, historically informed, jargon-free readings will persuade his readers of the serious pragmatic and semiotic functions of pictures in Shakespeare's plays. * Sederi * Original, engaging, highly innovative and richly researched, this book makes a valuable contribution to the field as the first interdisciplinary study which provides a concentrated and sustained focus on the use of physical pictures in Shakespeare's drama. The readings of the individual plays are breathtakingly deft, a tour de force interweaving of image theory, material culture, performance practice and textual analysis. The depth of the research, the illuminating illustrations and a handy glossary of Shakespeare's Iconographic Lexicon , make this book a bejewelled cabinet of wonders for the discerning reader, from undergraduate level upwards. -- Dr Chris Laoutaris, Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon

Original, engaging, highly innovative and richly researched, this book makes a valuable contribution to the field as the first interdisciplinary study which provides a concentrated and sustained focus on the use of physical pictures in Shakespeare's drama. The readings of the individual plays are breathtakingly deft, a tour de force interweaving of image theory, material culture, performance practice and textual analysis. The depth of the research, the illuminating illustrations and a handy glossary of Shakespeare's Iconographic Lexicon , make this book a bejewelled cabinet of wonders for the discerning reader, from undergraduate level upwards. -- Dr Chris Laoutaris, Lecturer at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon

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Keir Elam is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he is resident member of the Institute for Advanced Studies and evaluator for the Humanities in the University Research Observatory (Osservatorio della Ricerca). He is the editor of the Arden Third Series edition of Twelfth Night.

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