The Research About The British Engravings Of Shakespeare’s Drama During18^th And19^th Century

Shakespearean drama theme prints that Shakespeare as the performance content of printmaking, included scenes of Shakespeare’s plays, plays role or is the scene of the stage. According to the forming methods of classification can be divided into duplicate prints and prints.Shakespeare drama prints in the18th to19th century British romanticism style be current development is rapid, vigorous and prosperous due to the support of the royal family. With the revival of the Shakespeare in the UK and the development of the printing industry, the British art world began a reproduction and creation upsurge, and continue to evolve into an art atmosphere, a large number of print publishing pictures come out. Number and name of the traditional print illustration is enormous, but since there are artists painting since the moment of early writing prints.Due to limited subject and the external social environment factors, as the industrialization and the demise of the British peerage, the ethos painting gradually decline, again the time of the boom. But the world for love and study of Shakespeare’s works has never stopped, after Shakespeare drama theme prints in the19th century remains to continue development. Today, the drama theme also appeared frequently in the artist’s creation.Research of this paper revolves around Britain in the19th century Shakespeare drama theme prints, analyze its background and reasons, the early creation features as well as the further development of the theme of printmaking creation of Shakespeare’s drama. The body part of the thesis, the first chapter mainly studies phenomenon:in the19th century British Shakespeare in the revival of domestic drama of duplicate prints and ethos in early engraving, this art atmosphere by print individual and private organizations, after the royal family support and promote. The second chapter, which began in1780s of Boydell Shakespearean drama theme prints project leads to Shakespeare’s famous engraving art features and the analysis of the cultural value, it is concluded that Shakespeare drama theme prints, delicate, preciseness, reflect the levels of Britain in the19th century engraving art, is a dynamic static interpretation of art, the plays for later study of Shakespeare’s art and the art development provides an important clue of an era. The third chapter from the social environment, social ideology, people appreciate level points from three aspects this paper expounds the prints in Shakespeare’s plays and the prevailing social and historical reasons. The fourth chapter has made the extension and the divergence in the content, study the creation of drama theme prints and copy the prints of the later development. Conclusion part of the artistic features of fictions about Shakespeare throughout engravings and development made a summary.