Introduction: beyond Shakespeare: the contemporary Jacobean film -- Derek Jarman's queer contemporary Jacobean aesthetic: Caravaggio and Edward II -- The preposterous contemporary Jacobean film: Peter Greenaway's Cook, heritage Shakespeare and sexual exploitation in Mike Figgis's Hotel -- Third cinema, urban regeneration and heritage Shakespeare in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy -- Early modern performance and digital media: remediation and the evolving archival canon -- Bend it like Nagra: mainstreaming the changeling in Sarah Harding's Compulsion -- Conclusion: early modern dramatists on twenty-first century screens
Summary
Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-266) index
