The workes of William Shakespeare, containing all his comedies, histories, and tragedies: truely set forth, according to their first originall ; a flickbook:

In 1975 Abram Games, one of Britain?s greatest graphic designers, was commissioned to make a fund-raising poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His brilliant solution was to become iconic: the face of Shakespeare built up from the titles of all the plays as they appear in the First Folio.0The po...

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1. Verfasser: Games, Abram 1914-1996 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Pallas Athene 2018
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Zusammenfassung:In 1975 Abram Games, one of Britain?s greatest graphic designers, was commissioned to make a fund-raising poster for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His brilliant solution was to become iconic: the face of Shakespeare built up from the titles of all the plays as they appear in the First Folio.0The poster has been seen all over the world; but Abram Games intended much more. After his death, his daughter Naomi discovered a mock-up he had made of a flickbook. As the reader flicked the pages, Games planned to make Shakespeare?s face gradually emerge.0Now at last Games? original project is coming to life. All 37 plays are included, in the order they are printed in the First Folio of 1623, ending with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, added to the collection in the Third Folio of 1664. At the end, the playwright makes a graceful exit, marked by the poems and the lost or doubtful plays. The book is completed with some favourite quotations, and the date of each work
Beschreibung:ca. 110 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781843681373
1843681374

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