Beschreibung:
Sally Barnden is a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project 'Shakespeare in the Royal Collections' at King's College London. Her research on Shakespeare performance and still photography inspired the 'Still Shakespeare' animation project, a collaboration with Film London Artists' Moving Image Network. Her work has been published in Shakespeare Bulletin and Theatre Journal.
Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.
Introduction: leave not a rack behind; Part I. Photographing Performers: 1. Liveness, documentation, and the RSC's dreams, 1954¿77; 2. Photographing the past in the theatre of Charles Kean; 3. Julia Margaret Cameron, sympathetic Shakespeare and photographic afterlives; Part II. Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet: 4. 'Too much of water': Ophelia, photography, dissolution; 5. Poor Yorick: the photograph as memento mori; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.