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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Film adaptations Adaptations cinématographiques Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Russell Jackson |
ISBN: | 0521630231 9780521630238 0521639751 9780521639750 9780511999215 0511999216 |
OCLC Number: | 43487271 |
Description: | xiv, 342 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Shakespeare, films and the marketplace ; From play-script to screenplay / Russell Jackson -- Video and its paradoxes / Michèle Willems -- Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history : the case of Richard III / Barbara Freedman -- Shakespeare and movie genre : the case of Hamlet / Harry Keyishian -- Comedies on film / Michael Hattaway -- Filming Shakespeare's history : three films of Richard III / H.R. Coursen -- Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film / J. Lawrence Guntner -- Tragedies of love on film / Patricia Tatspaugh -- Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier / Anthony Davies -- Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare / Pamela Mason -- Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear / Mark Sokolyansky -- Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare / Deborah Cartmell -- Flamboyant realist : Kenneth Branagh / Samuel Crowl -- Looking at Shakespeare's women on film / Carol Chillington Rutter. National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films / Neil Taylor -- Shakespeare the illusionist : filming the supernatural / Neil Forsyth -- Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots / Tony Howard. |
Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature. |
Responsibility: | edited by Russell Jackson. |
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Abstract:
This lively Companion examines the wide range of films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. Leading scholars discuss Shakespearian films from a variety of perspectives including strong coverage of the work of individual directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh.
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'Cogently organised ... anyone wishing to purchase a single volume on the subject would do well to go for (this).' The Times Literary Supplement 'A well-priced, intelligently written collection which brings together familiar strands of critical analysis.' Shakespeare Yearbook 'Thanks to the diversity of approaches the Companion can be recommended as a valuable source of information and sound introduction to the state of the art.' Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Read more...
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