Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

English literature, English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700, Film, cinema

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Adaptation and its Contexts: 1. Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era Judith Buchanan; 2. Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood Deborah Cartmell; 3. Shakespeare 'live' Peter Holland; 4. Shakespearean cinemas/global directions Mark Thornton Burnett; Part II. Genres and Plays: 5. The comedies on screen Ramona Wray; 6. The environments of tragedy on screen: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth Peter Kirwan; 7. Two tragedies of love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello Victoria Bladen; 8. 'Sad stories of the death of kings': The Hollow Crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen Kinga Földváry; 9. The Roman plays on film Peter J. Smith; 10. Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest Antony Guy Patricia; Part III. Critical Issues: 11. Questions of racism: The Merchant of Venice and Othello Russell Jackson; 12. 'A wail in the silence': feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa Courtney Lehmann; 13. Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew Patricia Lennox; Part IV. Directors: 14. The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles Emma Smith; 15. Kurosawa's Shakespeare: mute heavens, merging worlds, or the metaphors of cruelty Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède; 16. Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures: living monuments Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; 17. Kenneth Branagh: mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres Sarah Hatchuel; 18. Remaking Shakespeare in India: Vishal Bhardwaj's films Poonam Trivedi; Further reading; Filmography; Index.

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen offers critical introductions by a team of distinguished scholars on a diverse range of screen adaptations of Shakespeare from around the world. The volume provides crucial contexts for undergraduate and graduate students of Shakespeare and media.

Product details

• Authors: Russell (University of Birmingham) Jackson
• Assisted by: Russell Jackson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108421164
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42116-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, DRAMA / Shakespeare, ART / Performance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Films, cinema, Literary studies: general, Performance Art, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean