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Searching for Shakespeare / Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells.

Title
Searching for Shakespeare / Tarnya Cooper ; with essays by Marcia Pointon, James Shapiro, and Stanley Wells.
Author
Cooper, Tarnya.
Publication
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
  • Pointon, Marcia R.
  • Shapiro, James, 1955-
  • Wells, Stanley, 1930-
  • Yale Center for British Art.
Description
239 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
Investigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his contemporaries.
Subject
  • Portrait painting, English > 16th century
  • Portrait painting, English > 17th century
  • Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs
Note
  • Accompanies the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, March 2-May 29, 2006, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, June 24-September 27, 2006.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
'Sweet master Shakespeare': 1564-1616 / Stanley Wells -- Shakespeare's professional world / James Shapiro -- Silent 'oratory': portrait painting in England around 1600 / Tarnya Cooper -- Catalogue: Shakespeare's face: his known likeness -- Likeness and myth: the search for Shakespeare's portrait -- The early years: Shakespeare's family and his life in Stratford-upon-Avon -- Elizabethan theatre: London playhouses in the 1580s -- The established playwright: patrons and players, wealth and reputation -- At court: the Essex Rebellion and the king's men -- Poets and playwrights: Shakespeare's contemporaries -- Death and legacy: the will and the plays -- National identity and the afterlife of Shakespeare's portraits / Marcia Pointon.
ISBN
  • 030011611X
  • 9780300116113
LCCN
^^2005938031
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library