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The Iconography of the English History Play

The Iconography of the English History Play PDF Author: Martha Hester Fleischer
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Category : Emblems
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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This study investigates the emblematic significance of the stage imagery of the popular English play in the age of Shakespeare. This venture into iconography aims to demonstrate that these plays convey significance by means of visual conventions and commonplaces, and that the nonverbal images so employed actually constitute a visual vocabulary currant at least in this dramatic genre. Drama is one of the visual arts, and in production the action creates a series of visual impressions which include non-verbal, presentational, and stage images. Many stage images are stage emblems, which carry culturally agreed upon moral meanings -- representations that carry allusions and allegories, part of the language of picture.