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.
Clifford Davidson is professor emeritus of English and Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Luis R. Gamez was a professor of English at Western Michigan University until 2002. John H. Stroupe is professor emeritus at Western Michigan University.
Preface by Luis GámezTemperance and the End of Time: Emblematic Antony and Cleopatra by Christopher WorthamThe 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 SimondsSpring and Winter in Love's Labor's Lost: An Iconographic Reconstruction by Frederick KieferJonson and the Emblematic Tradition: Ralegh, Brant, the Poems, The Alchemist, and Volpone by Robert C. EvansSpeaking Sweat: Emblems in the Plays of John Ford by Lisa HopkinsEmblematic Pictures for the Less Privileged in Shakespeare's England by Elizabeth TruaxQuarles as Dramatist by Elizabeth K. Hill