And That Rug!
Michael Dobson: Images of Shakespeare, 6 November 2003
Shakespeare’s Face: The Story behind the Newly Discovered Portrait
by Stephanie Nolen.
Piatkus, 365 pp., £18.99, March 2003,0 7499 2391 1 Show More
by Stephanie Nolen.
Piatkus, 365 pp., £18.99, March 2003,
Imagining Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions
by Stephen Orgel.
Palgrave, 172 pp., £25, August 2003,1 4039 1177 0 Show More
by Stephen Orgel.
Palgrave, 172 pp., £25, August 2003,
Shakespeare in Art
by Jane Martineau et al.
Merrell, 256 pp., £29.95, September 2003,1 85894 229 2 Show More
by Jane Martineau et al.
Merrell, 256 pp., £29.95, September 2003,
“... the Chandos, with its fetching gold earring, probably isn’t a picture of Shakespeare at all. As Stephen Orgel points out in his excellent new collection of essays, Imagining Shakespeare, the sitter for the Chandos portrait has unambiguously black hair, while the Janssen bust, commissioned and supervised by Shakespeare’s surviving family and ... ”