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Article: Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2005
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Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters. By FREDERICK KIEFER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiv+358 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 0-521-82725-6.
Frederick Kiefer's book is a lavishly illustrated and interesting account of how Shakespeare's personified characters would have been staged, based on pictorial traditions. In the introduction Kiefer argues that in Renaissance England 'the everyday objects that people wore, handled, and used in their homes [...] reveal a delight in the visual' (p. 6). Kiefer sees the theatre as the culminating site of this phenomenon, 'the intersection of a culture ...