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Author:   Russell Jackson (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9780511999215

ISBN 10:   0511999216
Publication Date:   28 May 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Shakespeare, films and the marketplace Russell Jackson; Part I. Adaptation and its Contexts: 1. From play-script to screenplay Russell Jackson; 2. Video and its paradoxes Michèle Willems; 3. Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history: the case of Richard III Barbara Freedman; 4. Shakespeare and movie genre: the case of Hamlet Harry Keyishian; Part II. Genres and Plays: 5. The comedies on film Michael Hattaway; 6. Filming Shakespeare's history: three films of Richard III H. R. Coursen; 7. Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film Lawrence Guntner; 8. The tragedies of love on film Patricia Tatspaugh; Part III. Directors: 9. The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier Anthony Davies; 10. Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare Pamela Mason; 11. Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear Mark Sokolyansky; 12. Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare Deborah Cartmell; 13. Flamboyant realist: Kenneth Branagh Samuel Crowl; Part IV. Critical Issues: 14. Looking at Shakespeare's women on film Carol Chillington Rutter; 15. National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films Neil Taylor; 16. Shakespeare the illusionist: filming the supernatural Neil Forsyth; 17. Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots Tony Howard; Further reading; Filmography.

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'Cogently organised ... anyone wishing to purchase a single volume on the subject would do well to go for (this).' The Times Literary Supplement 'A well-priced, intelligently written collection which brings together familiar strands of critical analysis.' Shakespeare Yearbook 'Thanks to the diversity of approaches the Companion can be recommended as a valuable source of information and sound introduction to the state of the art.' Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

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