LOOK HERE UPON THIS PICTURE, THEN ON THIS Shakespeare, Art & Music

Hamlet’s demand to his mother, that she hold his dead father’s picture in one hand, and new husband Claudio’s in the other, becomes our cue: Look Here Upon This Picture, Then On This is a weekly opportunity to compare works of art from the world’s great gallery of homage to Shakespeare’s plays. Here, in painting after painting, artists have felt driven to recreate the enduring charisma of the Bard’s most famous characters and so celebrate the dramatic turning-points in the plays which changed lives then and have done so ever since for theatre-goers and have done so ever since for theatre-goers and readers alike. Opera and music will be featured each week too.

FIRST BEHIND THE ARRAS OF THE MIND, NOW OUT IN THE OPEN (Hamlet 2)

A sword-thrust through a curtain and a fight with poisoned rapiers, even the death of Hamlet himself, are brushed aside in the stampede led by Rossetti and Millais to capture Ophelia in the brook. Has art’s agenda taken over here? Oh, and then there’s the madness, and the graveyard, and another crack at the Ghost . . .

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