Selected Plays: With The Illustrations Of Henry Fuseli
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, and Selected Plays: With the Illustrations of Henry Fuseli presents a curated collection of the Bard's most celebrated dramatic works in a edition of remarkable artistic distinction. This volume brings together some of Shakespeare's most enduring masterpieces — spanning tragedy, comedy, and history — accompanied by the haunting and visionary artwork of Swiss-British Romantic painter Henry Fuseli, whose turbulent, dreamlike imagery finds its perfect counterpart in the passions and phantoms that populate Shakespeare's worlds. From the doomed ambition of Macbeth to the supernatural whimsy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, these plays chronicle the full spectrum of the human condition with unrivalled poetic intensity. The pairing of Shakespeare's verse with Fuseli's illustrations is nothing short of inspired — Fuseli, a contemporary of Blake and a master of the sublime, produced some of the most iconic Shakespearean imagery ever committed to canvas, and here those works animate the text with a dark, electric energy. Published by the prestigious Franklin Library as part of its Franklin Center series, this collector's edition stands as a testament to the enduring cultural authority of Shakespeare's canon and the Romantic tradition that venerated it. For the devoted reader and serious collector alike, this volume raises a compelling question: when genius illuminates genius, what new depths of meaning are revealed?
Author: William Shakespeare
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few names in the English language carry the weight of William Shakespeare, and Selected Plays: With the Illustrations of Henry Fuseli presents a curated collection of the Bard's most celebrated dramatic works in a edition of remarkable artistic distinction. This volume brings together some of Shakespeare's most enduring masterpieces — spanning tragedy, comedy, and history — accompanied by the haunting and visionary artwork of Swiss-British Romantic painter Henry Fuseli, whose turbulent, dreamlike imagery finds its perfect counterpart in the passions and phantoms that populate Shakespeare's worlds. From the doomed ambition of Macbeth to the supernatural whimsy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, these plays chronicle the full spectrum of the human condition with unrivalled poetic intensity. The pairing of Shakespeare's verse with Fuseli's illustrations is nothing short of inspired — Fuseli, a contemporary of Blake and a master of the sublime, produced some of the most iconic Shakespearean imagery ever committed to canvas, and here those works animate the text with a dark, electric energy. Published by the prestigious Franklin Library as part of its Franklin Center series, this collector's edition stands as a testament to the enduring cultural authority of Shakespeare's canon and the Romantic tradition that venerated it. For the devoted reader and serious collector alike, this volume raises a compelling question: when genius illuminates genius, what new depths of meaning are revealed?