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Chapter 2 - Photographing the Past in the Theatre of Charles Kean

from Part I - Photographing Performers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2019

Sally Barnden
Sally Barnden
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King's College London
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chapter considers a set of photographs by Martin Laroche made in connection to performances of Richard II in the 1850s. I examine the context for these photographs within the history of photography, as commercial, staged photographs, produced shortly after a high-profile lawsuit had highlighted the tension between scientific and theatrical uses of the medium. I also approach them within their context in the history of Shakespeare performance, suggesting that photography played a key role in the development of ‘antiquarian’ approaches to the history plays in the Victorian period, especially in the work of Charles Kean.

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historyVictoriancollodionportraitsstereoscope
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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance , pp. 67 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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