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The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery
Table of Contents | |
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| Prefatory Note of the President of the German Shakespeare Society Dieter Mehl | 8 |
| Introduction: Gallery, Artists, and Engravers Frederick Burwick | 9 |
Engraving and History Painting | |
| Boydell's Shakespeare and the Redemption of British Engraving John Cage | 27 |
| Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and its Role in Promoting English History Painting Hildergard Hammerschmidt-Hummel | 33 |
| The Prints Themselves: Production, Marketing, and their Survival Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd | 45 |
The Artists - the Themes | |
| Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) - "Shakespeare's Painter" Petra Maisak | 57 |
| "Shakespeare between the Dramatic Muse and the Genius of Painting" From Boydell Fa&ccedi;ade to Shakespeare Shrine Elinor S. Shaffer | 75 |
| Suppliant Women and Monumental Maidens: Shakespeare's Heroines in the Boydell Gallery Georgianna Ziegler | 89 |
| Representing The Tempest in the Boydell Gallery Marcia Pointon | 103 |
| To Play the King: Illustrations of the Tempest in the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery Grant F. Scott | 113 |
The Literary Reception | |
| "An Adopted Daughter of Luxury": Georg Forster's Aesthetics and Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery Walter Pape | 125 |
| Ludwig Tieck's Commentary on the Copperplate Engravings of Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery Achim Holter | 135 |
| The Romantic Reception of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery: Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt Frederick Burwick | 143 |
The Artistic Reception | |
| Shakespeare Sacrificed: Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Gillray's Caricatures Gerd Unverfehrt | 161 |
| Shakespeare Compared: Boydell and Retzsch W. H. T. Vaughan | 175 |
The Artists: Biographical Sketches | |
| The Sculptors | 187 |
| The Painters | 187 |
| The Engravers | 195 |
Catalogue of the Engravings | |
| Folio Plates | 205 |
| List of the Quarto Plates | 291 |
| List of Additional Illustrations | 295 |
| Bibliography | 297 |
| Contributors | 306 |
| Index | 307 |
