Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and TelevisionAnthony Davies, Stanley Wells Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. In addition the volume includes a survey of previous scholarship and an invaluable filmography. |
Contents
Shakespeare on film and television a retrospect | 1 |
Shakespeare on the screen a selective filmography | 18 |
Twodimensional Shakespeare King Lear on film | 50 |
Verbalvisual verbalpictorial or textualtelevisual? Reflections on the BBC Shakespeare series | 69 |
Two types of television Shakespeare | 86 |
Shakespeares comedies on film | 99 |
The English history play on screen | 121 |
A world elsewhere the Roman plays on film and television | 146 |
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Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television Anthony Davies,Stanley Wells No preview available - 1994 |
Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television Anthony Davies,Stanley Wells No preview available - 1994 |
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References to this book
"Such stuff as films are made on": Shakespeare im Medienwechsel, Volume 1 Katharina Kettner No preview available - 1999 |
Adaptations: From Text to Screen, Screen to Text Deborah Cartmell,Imelda Whelehan No preview available - 1999 |