| Description |
xii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Shakespeare on film and television: a retrospect / Anthony Davies -- 2. Shakespeare on the screen: a selective filmography / Graham Holderness and Christopher McCullough -- 3. Two-dimensional Shakespeare: King Lear on film / Peter Holland -- 4. Verbal-visual, verbal-pictorial or textual-televisual? Reflections on the BBC Shakespeare series / Michele Willems -- 5. Two types of television Shakespeare / Neil Taylor -- 6. Shakespeare's comedies on film / Russell Jackson -- 7. The English history play on screen / Michael Manheim -- 8. A world elsewhere: the Roman plays on film and television / Samuel Crowl -- 9. Zeffirelli's Shakespeare / Ace G. Pilkington -- 10. The films of Hamlet / Neil Taylor -- 11. Filming Othello / Anthony Davies -- 12. Representing King Lear on screen: from metatheatre to 'metacinema' / Kenneth S. Rothwell -- 13. Kurosawa's Shakespeare films: Throne of Blood, The Bad Sleep Well, and Ran / Robert Hapgood -- 14. Macbeth on film: politics / E. Pearlman |
| Summary |
Essays on the best known film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays |
| Analysis |
English drama Adaptations (Arts) Films (Motion pictures) |
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English drama Adaptations (Arts) Films (Motion pictures) |
| Notes |
Filmography: p18-49. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 18-49 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Filmand video adaptations
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
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English drama -- Film adaptations.
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English drama -- Filmand video adaptations
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English drama -- Television adaptations.
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Film adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Film adaptations.
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Television adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Television adaptations.
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| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Author |
Davies, Anthony, 1936-
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Wells, Stanley, 1930-
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| LC no. |
93042524 |
| ISBN |
0521434246 |
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0521435730 (paperback) |
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