| Description |
xii, 349 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
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 -- The comedies on film / Michael Hattaway -- Filming Shakespeare's history : three films of Richard III / H.R. Coursen -- Hamlet, Lady Macbeth and King Lear on film / J. Lawrence Guntner -- The tragedies of love on film / Patricia Tatspaugh -- The 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 |
| Summary |
This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema with strong coverage Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 328-335 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-327) and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616,
author -- Film adaptations.
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English drama -- Film adaptations.
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English drama -- Television adaptations.
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Author |
Jackson, Russell, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2007277284 |
| ISBN |
052168501X |
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0521866006 |
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9780521685016 |
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9780521866002 |
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