Book contents
- Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
- Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Leave Not a Rack Behind’
- Part I Photographing Performers
- Part II Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet
- Chapter 4 ‘Too Much of Water’: Ophelia, Photography, Dissolution
- Chapter 5 ‘Poor Yorick’: The Photograph as Memento Mori
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue
from Part II - Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
- Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: ‘Leave Not a Rack Behind’
- Part I Photographing Performers
- Part II Iconography, Photography, and Hamlet
- Chapter 4 ‘Too Much of Water’: Ophelia, Photography, Dissolution
- Chapter 5 ‘Poor Yorick’: The Photograph as Memento Mori
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Prompted by an encounter with a photograph of Vivien Leigh as Titania in an exhibition, this final section reflects on the book’s argument, particularly its attention to the idea of a photograph as index, in spite of its insistence that all photographs are constructed.
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- Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance , pp. 225 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019