Shakespeare and Early Modern Visual Culture

This essay presents an overview of recent work in the area of studies of Shakespeare and visual culture. Aiming to give an indication of the diverse range of approaches that may be adopted in this highly interdisciplinary field, the essay focuses particularly on a recent trend for the analysis of Shakespeare’s engagements with visuality from strongly literary perspectives. This trend has produced some valuable work, with significant implications for our understanding of Shakespeare’s status as a ‘literary’ figure. An emphasis on literariness in Shakespeare’s interactions with visual culture is linked partly to concerns about the status of visual culture in post‐Reformation England. Recent developments in art history and visual studies challenge some of the assumptions about post‐Reformation English visual culture that inform current works on Shakespeare and visual culture. By looking closely at relevant new art‐historical thinking, literary critics may significantly broaden the framework for the exploration of Shakespeare’s works as a part of early modern visual culture

Aesthetics · Art · Literariness · Literary criticism · Literature · Visual arts · Visual culture · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory

• Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare

  Open Access•Alison Thorne•Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare•2000

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• The Idolatrous Eye

  Michael O’connell, Michael O'Connell•The Idolatrous Eye•2000

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• Shakespearean Negotiations

  Stephen Greenblatt•Shakespearean Negotiations•1988

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• Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

  Dana E Aspinall•Sixteenth Century Journal•1998

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• "Living Sculptures"

  Leonard Barkan•ELH•1981

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• The Evolution of the Grand Tour. Anglo-Italian cultural relations since the Renaissance

  L Connor•Journal of the History of…•1999

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• Art and Power

  Bonner Mitchell, Roy Strong et al.•Italica•1986

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• Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England

  Catherine Richardson•Domestic life and domestic…•2013

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• The stage and social struggle in early modern England

  Jean E Howard•Stage and Social Struggle in…•2003

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• The Science of Art

  Nicholas Adams, Martin Kemp•Technology and Culture•1991

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• The Invention of Art

  Larry Shiner•The Invention of Art•2001

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