Shakespeare and the Visual Arts

Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern period this volume's tripartite structure considers the relationship between Renaissance material arts theatre and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre explores the use and function of Italian visual culture in Shakespeare's oeuvre and questions the appropriation of the arts in the production of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. An afterword a rich bibliography of primary and secondary literature and a detailed Index round off the volume.