All Outputs (5)

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2023)
Book
Meek, R. (2023). Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280259

Book description:
This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy... Read More about Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture.

Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts (2018)
Book
Meek, R. (2018). D. Kennedy, & R. Meek (Eds.). Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts. Manchester University Press

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays see... Read More about Ekphrastic encounters: New interdisciplinary essays on literature and the visual arts.

The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
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(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare (2009)
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Meek, R. (2009). Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare. The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248400

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his work... Read More about Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception (2008)
Book
Meek, R., Rickard, J., & Wilson, R. (Eds.). (2008). Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception. Manchester University Press

This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in perf... Read More about Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception.