Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This book explore

A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.

Images are inscribed in the memory more easily than words, and some remain with the viewer for a lifetime. Combining hindsight, insight and foresight, the chapt

Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern

An analysis of the ways in which Shakespeare's imagery functions to reveal literary and personal motives.