Stuart Sillars is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, and the author of several books and many articles on the relations between word and image, including four previous volumes on Shakespeare and visual art published by Cambridge University Press.

'This is a remarkable and important study of the visual dimension of Shakespeare and has implications far beyond the historical period addressed. The scholarship is impeccable and while the argument of the book is magnificently lucid, it is prosecuted with admirable subtlety.' Dympna C. Callahan, Syracuse University, New York

• 1. Frames and circumstances; Part I. Structures and Concepts in Shakespeare Imaging: 2. Mechanism and meaning in illustrated editions; 3. Performance reading in practice; 4. Shakespeare painting and aesthetic identity; Part II. Image, Stage and Beyond: Instances and Movement: 5. The visual identities of The Comedy of Errors; 6. Text, image and temper in King Lear; 7. Rhythms of action and feeling: the Roman plays; 8. Rank and race in imaging Othello; 9. The Merchant of Venice and English visual culture; 10. Shakespeare painting 1800–1848; 11. Conclusions and departures.

Stuart Sillars is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway, and the author of several books and many articles on the relations between word and image, including four previous volumes on Shakespeare and visual art published by Cambridge University Press.

'This is a remarkable and important study of the visual dimension of Shakespeare and has implications far beyond the historical period addressed. The scholarship is impeccable and while the argument of the book is magnificently lucid, it is prosecuted with admirable subtlety.' Dympna C. Callahan, Syracuse University, New York

• 1. Frames and circumstances; Part I. Structures and Concepts in Shakespeare Imaging: 2. Mechanism and meaning in illustrated editions; 3. Performance reading in practice; 4. Shakespeare painting and aesthetic identity; Part II. Image, Stage and Beyond: Instances and Movement: 5. The visual identities of The Comedy of Errors; 6. Text, image and temper in King Lear; 7. Rhythms of action and feeling: the Roman plays; 8. Rank and race in imaging Othello; 9. The Merchant of Venice and English visual culture; 10. Shakespeare painting 1800–1848; 11. Conclusions and departures.