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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies

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Early Modern visual-verbal esoteric imagery and the theatre: Julius Caesar 1.3

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies December 19, 2025 Svenn-Arve Myklebost

Adopting a method which combines close readings of iconography and playtext with broader historicist and cultural investigations, this article attempts to contribute to the field of visual-verbal Shakespeare studies through outlining how polysemous images and imagery are recombined within circular designs (wheels, spheres, globes, playhouses) upon which ‘actors’ are ‘staged’, in order to...

DOI: 10.35360/njes.421 (opens in new tab) Full text (opens in new tab) Early modern Renaissance Shakespeare Julius caesar +2