Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review'He lays before us verbal and visual representations of title-pages, frontispieces, stage and costume designs by Inigo Jones, architectural splendors, portraits, maps, stage productions over the centuries, and still more, all informed by an extensive command of art history, intellectual history, humanist learning, the history of book illustration, and above all the history of every kind of theatrical representation. Stephen Orgel is himself the embodiment of the humanist scholar, and this present book is a rich repository of that great tradition...The present volume is a splendid collection of his work at its best.'
DAVID BEVINGTON, University of Chicago, Renaissance Quarterly
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Table of ContentsIllustrations
Previously published essays
Introduction
Part I The construction of the self
1. I am Richard II
2. Seeing through costume
3. Jonson and the Amazons
Part II Drama
4. Othello and the end of comedy
5. King Lear and the art of forgetting
6. The case for Comus
7. Completing Hamlet
Part III Books
8. Open secrets
9. Textual icons: reading early modern illustrations
10. Not his picture but his book
11. Plagiarism revisited
Part IV The visual arts
12. Devils incarnate
13. Ganymede Agonistes
Index
