Pre-Raphaelites Painting Shakespeare’s Women

• Authors: Lavinia Hulea
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Iconic signs such as paintings, engravings or book illustrations come into existence as a result of visual attempts at redefining the literary text to which they refer. Although they belong to a different medium, they are always conditioned and influenced by the original literary work. English painting displays a series of famous images which explicitly have their roots in literary texts. While the works of Shakespeare, Keats and Tennyson seem to determine a special connection with painting, Shakespeare’s plays are the source of one of the most inspiring subjects of the Pre-Raphaelite painters: women.

Keywords

EN

literary text; Pre-Raphaelites; Shakespeare; visual image; women

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 126-134

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Lavinia Hulea

• University of Petroşani, 20, Universitatii str, Petroşani, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0033-6