Emblem, Iconography, and Drama

Edited by Clifford Davidson Edited by Luis R. Gamez Edited by John H. Stroupe

Book cover: Emblem, Iconography, and Drama

Extent: 188 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 1995)

ISBN: 9781879288577

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $29.95

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Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.


Eight iconographic studies by American, Australian, and British scholars that focus on Shakespeare and his contemporaries and on the interconnectedness of their art with the visual language of their time. Reprinted from Comparative Drama.

Preface by Luis Gámez
Temperance and the End of Time: Emblematic Antony and Cleopatra by Christopher Wortham
The Masks of Cupid and Death by Judith Dundas
"Sweet Power of Music": The Political Magic of "the Miraculous Harp" in Shakespeare's The Tempest by Peggy Munoz Simonds
Spring and Winter in Love's Labor's Lost: An Iconographic Reconstruction by Frederick Kiefer
Jonson and the Emblematic Tradition: Ralegh, Brant, the Poems, The Alchemist, and Volpone by Robert C. Evans
Speaking Sweat: Emblems in the Plays of John Ford by Lisa Hopkins
Emblematic Pictures for the Less Privileged in Shakespeare's England by Elizabeth Truax
Quarles as Dramatist by Elizabeth K. Hill

  • Edited by Clifford Davidson
  • Edited by Luis R. Gamez
  • Edited by John H. Stroupe