
This book contends that Shakespeare's enduring preoccupation with issues of viewpoint needs to be understood in the context of the visual and rhetorical culture of his day. Early chapters thus investigate the complex attitude of Shakespeare and his contemporaries to what was...

This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England,...