Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare: Looking Through Language

This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context. Focusing on five Shakespearean plays, she situates their preoccupation with issues of viewpoint in relation to a range of artistic forms and topics from miniatures to masques.

Author: A. Thorne
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/01/2000
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780333659397

About the Author
Alison Thorne is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde.

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