The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

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An edifying "Pictura loquens" : Alberico Gentili's Commentatio and his defence of drama in Elizabethan Oxford / Cristiano Ragni -- Looking at and through pictures in Donne's Lyrics / James A. Knapp -- "A painted devil" : the matter and making of images in Macbeth / Chloe Porter -- Mirrors, pictures, optics, Shakespeare / B.J. Sokol -- Over the edge : Shakespeare, Judith, and the Virtuous use of female indiscretion and deception / Rocco Coronato -- "Be her sense but as a monument" : lost icons and substitutive figures in Shakespeare's Cymbeline / Fiammetta Dionisio -- The notion of picturing in early modern literature : the case of the miniaturist Isaac Oliver (c.1585-1617) / Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard -- "Take this picture which I heere present thee" : the art of picturing in the Elizabethan sonnet sequences / Camilla Caporicci -- Narrative portraiture / Catherine Belsey -- Picturing in little or in stone? Miniature versus monument in The triall of chevalry (Anonymous, 1605) / Armelle Sabatier -- Performing portraits : the portrait as prop and its performative dimension in early modern English drama / Emanuel Stelzer -- Prospero's rainbow : political miracles in The tempest / Rosanna Camerlingo -- "Picture is the invention of heaven" : Ben Jonson and the paradox of the visual / Keir Elam.