Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
Author:   Sally Barnden (King's College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108738255


Pages:   262
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Sally Barnden (King's College London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.359kg
ISBN:  

9781108738255


ISBN 10:   1108738257
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   18 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: leave not a rack behind; Part I. Photographing Performers: 1. Liveness, documentation, and the RSC's dreams, 1954–77; 2. Photographing the past in the theatre of Charles Kean; 3. Julia Margaret Cameron, sympathetic Shakespeare and photographic afterlives; Part II. Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet: 4. 'Too much of water': Ophelia, photography, dissolution; 5. Poor Yorick: the photograph as memento mori; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.

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'Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is a fascinating book for this photoshopping age ... Still Shakespeare offers an enlightening and engaging introduction to the study of Shakespeare photography that should appeal to performance historians and theatre creators alike.' Daniel Yabut, Cahiers Elisabethains


'... Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is a fascinating book for this photoshopping age ... Still Shakespeare offers an enlightening and engaging introduction to the study of Shakespeare photography that should appeal to performance historians and theatre creators alike.' Daniel Yabut, Cahiers Elisabethains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies


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Sally Barnden is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collections' at King's College London. Her research on Shakespeare performance and still photography inspired the 'Still Shakespeare' animation project, a collaboration with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network. Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin and Theatre Journal.

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