Indirections: Shakespeare and the Art of Illusion

by Anthony B. Dawson

Book Overview

The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. The plays constantly remind the audience of the complex fictiveness of their experience yet they also project a reality specifically through illusion. Indirections is a study of twelve plays in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442639776
• ISBN13: 9781442639775
• Release Date: December 1978
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"