Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• 1. Play, page and image; 2. Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare; 3. Rococo and reflection: Gravelot, Hayman and Walker; 4. Bell, performance and reading; 5. 'Ornaments, derived from fancy': illustrating the plays, 1780–1840; 6. The growth of feeling: Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque; 7 The extra-illustrated edition; 8. Early Victorian populism: Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows; 9. Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement; 10. Decline and revival.

'Stuart Sillars is a brilliant guide to the long history of illustrating Shakespeare on the page. He helps us see what Shakespeare's readers saw when they opened their editions across two centuries and found images as well as dialogue. Reading him makes us read anew the way they read. The Illustrated Shakespeare changes our understanding of the reception of Shakespeare startlingly and excitingly.' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• 1. Play, page and image; 2. Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare; 3. Rococo and reflection: Gravelot, Hayman and Walker; 4. Bell, performance and reading; 5. 'Ornaments, derived from fancy': illustrating the plays, 1780–1840; 6. The growth of feeling: Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque; 7 The extra-illustrated edition; 8. Early Victorian populism: Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows; 9. Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement; 10. Decline and revival.

'Stuart Sillars is a brilliant guide to the long history of illustrating Shakespeare on the page. He helps us see what Shakespeare's readers saw when they opened their editions across two centuries and found images as well as dialogue. Reading him makes us read anew the way they read. The Illustrated Shakespeare changes our understanding of the reception of Shakespeare startlingly and excitingly.' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Stuart Sillars is Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• 1. Play, page and image; 2. Spatial narratives and Rowe's Shakespeare; 3. Rococo and reflection: Gravelot, Hayman and Walker; 4. Bell, performance and reading; 5. 'Ornaments, derived from fancy': illustrating the plays, 1780–1840; 6. The growth of feeling: Boydell, Taylor and the picturesque; 7 The extra-illustrated edition; 8. Early Victorian populism: Charles Knight and Kenny Meadows; 9. Selous, Gilbert and reader involvement; 10. Decline and revival.

'Stuart Sillars is a brilliant guide to the long history of illustrating Shakespeare on the page. He helps us see what Shakespeare's readers saw when they opened their editions across two centuries and found images as well as dialogue. Reading him makes us read anew the way they read. The Illustrated Shakespeare changes our understanding of the reception of Shakespeare startlingly and excitingly.' Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, Indiana