PRESENTING SHAKESPEARE

A skull held aloft, a lovesick donkey, a bloodied daggerthese familiar icons are instantly recognizable shorthand for the plays of William Shakespeare. In the four hundred years since his death, the Bard of Avon's exalted place in the pantheon of theater and poet ryindeed, all of Western cultureis unequaled. As Ben Jonson proclaimed, Shakespeare is not of an age but for all time!And just as centuries of theatrical artists have reimagined his works through the lens of their own time and culture, so too have illustrators a nd designers ...[Llegir més]