Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century

Author:   Mark Thornton Burnett ,  Ramona Wray
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9780748623501


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 September 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mark Thornton Burnett ,  Ramona Wray
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.484kg
ISBN:  

9780748623501


ISBN 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   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 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.

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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. -- 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.


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Mark 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).

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