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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Thornton Burnett , Ramona WrayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.484kg ISBN: 9780748623501ISBN 10: 0748623507 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 28 September 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray; 1. 'If I'm right': Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare, Richard Dutton; 2. 'I see my father' in 'my mind's eye': Surveillance and the Filmic Hamlet, Mark Thornton Burnett; 3. Backstage Pass(ing): Stage Beauty, Othello and the Make-up of Race, Richard Burt; 4. The Postnostalgic Renaissance: The 'Place' of Liverpool in Don Boyd's My Kingdom, Courtney Lehmann; 5. Our Shakespeares: British Television and the Strains of Multiculturalism, Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy; 6. Looking for Shylock: Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Radford and Al Pacino, Samuel Crowl; 7. Speaking Maori Shakespeare, Catherine Silverstone; 8. 'Into a thousand parts divide one man', Sarah Hatchuel; 9. Screening the McShakespeare in Post-Millenial Shakespeare Cinema; 10. Shakespeare and the Singletons, Ramona Wray; Notes on Contributors; Index.ReviewsThe ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. -- Ewan Fernie, Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. -- Peter S. Donaldson, Department of Literature, MIT, & Director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive The ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. Author InformationMark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Macmillan, 1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |