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Zusatztext a mine of information supported by thorough! well-documented archival research ... it clearly has its place on the shelves of all who either wish to have an entertaining introduction into the most important feature films based on Shakespearean texts! or who enjoy being challenged out of old assumptions and made to think and rethink their former opinions. Informationen zum Autor Russell Jackson is Allardyce Nicoll Professor of Drama in the University of Birmingham, where his research and teaching have focused on theatre history, film and Shakespearean performance. His recent publications include he Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception (CUP, 2007), and Theatres on Film: how the Cinema imagines the Stages (Manchester University Press, 2013).He has been text consultant on many theatre and film productions including Kenneth Branagh's films of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost and As You Like It, and stage productions directed by Michael Grandage — including Othello, King Lear and Richard II at the Donmar Theatre, Twelfth Night and Hamlet atWyndham's Theatre, and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Henry V at the Noël Coward Theatre. Klappentext Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen. Zusammenfassung Shakespeare and the English-speaking Cinema offers a lively and authorative account of the ways in which Shakespeare's plays have been adapted for the screen. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: Legalised plagiarism and the rewards of adaptation; 1 Places; 2 People; 3 Gender matters in comedy; 4 Eros in tragedy; 5 Power Plays -- politics in the Shakespeare films; 6 Beyond Shakespeare; 'Please Rewind'; Filmography; Further Reading
