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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... Romeo and Juliet . A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided . RUSSELL JACKSON is Reader in Shakespeare Studies and Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute , University of Birmingham . He has worked as a ...
... Romeo and Juliet . A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided . RUSSELL JACKSON is Reader in Shakespeare Studies and Deputy Director of the Shakespeare Institute , University of Birmingham . He has worked as a ...
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... Romeo and Juliet reappear in a variety of contexts . As ' text adviser ' I myself have had a hand or ( in the words of the Elizabethan playwright Thomas Heywood ) at least a main finger in a number of recent Shakespeare films ...
... Romeo and Juliet reappear in a variety of contexts . As ' text adviser ' I myself have had a hand or ( in the words of the Elizabethan playwright Thomas Heywood ) at least a main finger in a number of recent Shakespeare films ...
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... Romeo and Juliet directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg at MGM was an expensive showcase for Thalberg's wife , Norma Shearer . Paul Czinner's British production of As You Like It , starring Elisabeth Bergner and ...
... Romeo and Juliet directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg at MGM was an expensive showcase for Thalberg's wife , Norma Shearer . Paul Czinner's British production of As You Like It , starring Elisabeth Bergner and ...
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... Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) . Shakespeare was established in the context of popular international cinema and potentially impressive profit : in the USA alone Romeo and Juliet earned fourteen times its negative costs . ( One yard- stick of ...
... Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ) . Shakespeare was established in the context of popular international cinema and potentially impressive profit : in the USA alone Romeo and Juliet earned fourteen times its negative costs . ( One yard- stick of ...
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... Romeo + Juliet , with its youth appeal and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo , must have seemed like a winner from an early stage . Although its budget was a rela- tively modest $ 14.5m . , it was given the ' wide ' opening regularly employed ...
... Romeo + Juliet , with its youth appeal and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo , must have seemed like a winner from an early stage . Although its budget was a rela- tively modest $ 14.5m . , it was given the ' wide ' opening regularly employed ...
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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