"Painting is Welcome"

Alternative title

Recreating the Boydell Gallery

Synopsis

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In the decades after Shakespeare’s death, his works fell out of favour. His renaissance is usually credited to actor-manager David Garrick, who staged a Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. Riding Garrick’s coattails, an artistic entrepreneur named John Boydell later opened one of England’s first art galleries, devoted to paintings of scenes from Shakespeare plays. The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery has now been recreated online at www.whatjanesaw.org. Janine Barchas, an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin and co-curator of the Folger’s upcoming exhibition, Will & Jane [Austen]. Janine led the team that reconstructed Boydell’s gallery as a website. Barbara Bogaev talks to Janine about the 18th-century Shakespeare craze, how Boydell capitalised on it, and the detective work required to recreate his gallery.

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Language

English

Country

United States

Medium

Audio

Notes

Podcast: http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-52 (accessed 7/2016).

Subjects

Art; Drama

Keywords

paintings; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Online availability

URI

http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-52

Credits

Producer

Richard Paul

Contributor

Barbara Bogaev; Janine Barchas

Production Company

Name

R.L. Paul Productions