Shakespeare’s Pictorial Imagination in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Shakespeare, text, image, intermedialityAbstract
This essay aims to examine the appropriation of motifs, codes and conventions from the visual arts for structural, thematic and aesthetic purposes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-1596). Shakespeare’s creative transfer of symbolic images and philosophical ideas from painting to dramatic poetry will be discussed in the light of theoretical perspectives formulated by Claus Clüver, Liliane Louvel and Tamar Yacobi who widened the scope of the concepts of ekphrasis and intersemiotic transposition in contemporaneity.References
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