Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones

Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones

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Within Shakespeare’s lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare’s appearance is mysterious. This generously illustrated book offers a new perspective on Shakespeare likenesses, as well as exploring the afterlife of these images.

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Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones

Within Shakespeares lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeares appearance is mysterious. This generously illustrated book offers a new perspective on Shakespeare likenesses, as well as exploring the afterlife of these images.
Katherine Duncan-Jones is an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She has written biographies of Sir Philip Sidney (1991) and Shakespeare (2001; revised edition, 2010); and has edited Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997) and (with H.R. Woudhuysen) the same writer’s Poems (2007), both for the Arden Shakespeare series.
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ISBN 13 9781851244058
ISBN 10 1851244050
Title Portraits of Shakespeare
Author Katherine Duncan-Jones
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bodleian Library
Year published 2015-09-25
Number of pages 136
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.