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Shakespeare in art. (Report from Europe).(Brief Article)

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| August 01, 2003 | Kramer, Miriam | COPYRIGHT 2003 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

There are only two likenesses of William Shakespeare--an engraving and a memorial bust--that are considered authentic, and they are very different from each other, so no one agrees which one truly resembles the man. When it came to depicting his work and its interpreters, no end of artists tried their hand. Sometimes they recorded great performers such as David Garrick in great perfonnances, and sometimes they depicted characters and scenes from the plays. Bardolatry, as George Bernard Shaw called it, reached its height in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...

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