Shakespeare and Visual Culture: A Dictionary

The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries series aims to provide readers with “authoritative guides to major subject-areas”, and there can be little doubt that this latest offering on visual culture in Shakespeare is a welcome synthesis of a large and wide ranging subject.

Sabatier’s introduction is lucid and comprehensive, bringing together recent criticism on Shakespeare and visual culture and making a number of interesting points about the historical context and critical landscape. She underlines, for instance, the growing recognition of the importance of secular imagery in early modern English culture and also points out that traditionally, sculpture has received far less attention...