Author:
Title: Boydell's Graphic Illustrations of the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare. London, 1804.
Call #: Dayton Coll. 822.33 77B 693 g
Illustration: Romeo and Juliet Act I, Scene 5,
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 19th-century visual culture
- Illustration as interpretation of text
- Choice of scenes -- what artists choose to depict, and why
- Illustration as marketing of artists and of Shakespeare (note that this is a volume of engravings, taken from exhibits of paintings based on Shakespeare's works. Notes: the depiction of Rosalind and Viola cross dressed as men in As You Like It and Twelfth Night of the three witches in Macbeth of Hal taking the crown in Henry IV Part 2
