Henry VIII (Vol. 41) | Linda McJ. Micheli (essay date 1987)
Linda McJ. Micheli (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: "'Sit By Us': Visual Imagery and the Two Queens in Henry VIII" in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 4, Winter, 1987, pp. 452-66.
[In the following essay, Micheli investigates the contrasting visual images associated with Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn in Henry VIII and the significance of these to the play as both a romance and a chronicle history.]
The rewards that await the critic, director, or spectator who is attentive to the visual as well as the verbal elements of Shakespeare's plays have been amply demonstrated by Maurice Charney, Sidney Homan, Anne Slater, David Bevington, Alan Dessen, and others. 1 Discussion of the visual effects of the plays in performance is now common in Shakespeare criticism, and recent studies, such as Linda LaBranche's analysis of the tension between what we see and what we hear in Troilus and Cressida,2 have deepened our...
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