The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on FilmRussell Jackson Cambridge University Press, 2000 M10 26 - 342 pages Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided. |
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... adaptations . I. Jackson , Russell , 1949- II . Series . PR3093.C36 2000 791.43'6 - dc21 00-023195 ISBN 0 521 63023 1 hardback ISBN 0 521 63975 1 paperback List of contributors Preface CONTENTS A note on references Introduction.
... adaptations . I. Jackson , Russell , 1949- II . Series . PR3093.C36 2000 791.43'6 - dc21 00-023195 ISBN 0 521 63023 1 hardback ISBN 0 521 63975 1 paperback List of contributors Preface CONTENTS A note on references Introduction.
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Russell Jackson. List of contributors Preface CONTENTS A note on references Introduction : Shakespeare , films and the marketplace RUSSELL JACKSON PART 1 ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS I From play - script to screenplay page xi xiii xiv I ...
Russell Jackson. List of contributors Preface CONTENTS A note on references Introduction : Shakespeare , films and the marketplace RUSSELL JACKSON PART 1 ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS I From play - script to screenplay page xi xiii xiv I ...
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... Branagh . As editor of this volume , I have not attempted to influence or alter the contributors ' responses to them . R.J. , Stratford - upon - Avon May , 2000 A NOTE ON REFERENCES Unless otherwise indicated , references to xiii PREFACE.
... Branagh . As editor of this volume , I have not attempted to influence or alter the contributors ' responses to them . R.J. , Stratford - upon - Avon May , 2000 A NOTE ON REFERENCES Unless otherwise indicated , references to xiii PREFACE.
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... Shakespeare's plays are to the one- volume Complete Works edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ( Compact Edition , Oxford , 1988 ) . RUSSELL JACKSON Introduction : Shakespeare , films and the marketplace xiv A NOTE ON REFERENCES.
... Shakespeare's plays are to the one- volume Complete Works edited by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor ( Compact Edition , Oxford , 1988 ) . RUSSELL JACKSON Introduction : Shakespeare , films and the marketplace xiv A NOTE ON REFERENCES.
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... note to the script of Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1999 ) that Titania's affair with Oberon is ' somewhat tempestuous ' , and that ' a rela- tionship with Bottom is very liberating in its simplicity ' - an analysis ...
... note to the script of Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1999 ) that Titania's affair with Oberon is ' somewhat tempestuous ' , and that ' a rela- tionship with Bottom is very liberating in its simplicity ' - an analysis ...
Contents
From playscript to screenplay | 15 |
Video and its paradoxes | 35 |
Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history the case of Richard III | 47 |
Shakespeare and movie genre the case of Hamlet | 72 |
Genres and plays | 83 |
The comedies on film | 85 |
Filming Shakespeares history three films of Richard III | 99 |
Hamlet Macbeth and King Lear on film | 117 |
Grigori Kozintsevs Hamlet and King Lear | 199 |
Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare | 212 |
Flamboyant realist Kenneth Branagh | 222 |
Critical issues | 239 |
Looking at Shakespeares women on film | 241 |
National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films | 261 |
Shakespeare the illusionist filming the supernatural | 274 |
Shakespeares cinematic offshoots | 295 |
The tragedies of love on film | 135 |
Directors | 161 |
The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier | 163 |
Orson Welles and f1lmed Shakespeare | 183 |
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FILMOGRAPHY | 318 |
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