A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in multiplexes. Topics covered include the silent era, Hollywood in the 1930s, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, the transgressive cinema of Jarman and Greenaway, and the renaissance of the Shakespeare film with Kenneth Branagh in the 1990s. The book is truly international in scope, looking not only at screen adaptations in the UK and the US but also at the films of Kozintsev, Kurosawa, Zeffirelli and others. A filmography, bibliography and index of names make it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists, while its accessible style will ensure that it appeals to enthusiasts and film-goers as well as to a more academic audience.
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'The don of Shakespeare on screen has done it again. Kenneth Rothwell's History of Shakespeare on Screen is an instant classic - required reading for anyone who works on the subject, and fascinating reading for those who do not. In a tour de force, Rothwell presents an invaluable critical history of one hundred years of screened Shakespeare in 259 pages of text. One of the most important recent books on Shakespeare, it is unlikely to be surpassed.' Barbara Freedman, Shakespeare Quarterly
'For a century, Shakespeare's plays have been a goldmine of scenarios and scripts for hundreds of films, silent and otherwise, and, more recently, of television dramas. In this well-informed and wide-ranging book, at once magisterial and entertaining, Kenneth Rothwell takes us from the beginnings - Beerbohm Tree's death throes as King John (1899) - almost to the present - Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996).' Stanley Wells, The Daily Telegraph
'[Rothwell] is an extremely compelling analyst of 'film rhetoric' - of particular technologies of style ... of details one might otherwise miss on first viewing. Written accounts of moving images are necessarily impoverished, but Rothwell, characteristically, turns even this problem to his advantage; he makes you want to see the movies yourself.' The Times Literary Supplement
'For a century, Shakespeare's plays have been a goldmine of scenarios and scripts for hundreds of films, silent and otherwise, and, more recently, of television dramas. In this well-informed and wide-ranging book, at once magisterial and entertaining, Kenneth Rothwell takes us from the beginnings - Beerbohm Tree's death throes as King John (1899) - almost to the present - Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996).' Stanley Wells, The Daily Telegraph
'[Rothwell] is an extremely compelling analyst of 'film rhetoric' - of particular technologies of style ... of details one might otherwise miss on first viewing. Written accounts of moving images are necessarily impoverished, but Rothwell, characteristically, turns even this problem to his advantage; he makes you want to see the movies yourself.' The Times Literary Supplement
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This book chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions. A filmography, bibliography and index of names make it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists but it will also appeal to a more general audience.
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shakespeare in films and on television,
By Diana (SC, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television (Hardcover)
This penetrating work explores Shakespearean productions during the silent era, Hollywood in the 30's, and the films of L. Olivier, Orson wells, Jarman, Greenway, and the renaissance accomplished by director actor Kenneth Brannagh. Professors have recommended it as an excellent reference book for specialists as well as a text that is accessible to non-academic film enthusiasts.
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one of the better books about shakespear on screen,
By Cyberbambi123 (Zürich - Switzerland / Europe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television (Hardcover)
every year there are 3 - 5 new adaption of Shakespear-plays for the silverscreen. Good written book but not the lexica-type reference work. Only a few pictures. a complete filmographie with credits is unfortunately missing. other books about Shakespear on screen: "Shakespeare on Film" by Robert Shaughnessy; "Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era To The Present Day" by Douglas Brode, "Shakespeare, the Movie" by Lynda E. Boose
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How best to imagine Shakespeare's words in moving images? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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King Lear, New York, Orson Welles, King Henry, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Sir Toby, Throne of Blood, United States, Taming of the Shrew, Lady Anne, Peter Brook, William Shakespeare, Charlton Heston, North America, The Tempest, Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Miller, Judi Dench New!
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tickling commodity, tight framing, duel scene, rude mechanicals, wooing scene, tomb scene Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
King Lear, New York, Orson Welles, King Henry, Julius Caesar, Lady Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Sir Toby, Throne of Blood, United States, Taming of the Shrew, Lady Anne, Peter Brook, William Shakespeare, Charlton Heston, North America, The Tempest, Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Miller, Judi Dench New!
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- Prospero's Books: A Film of the Shakespeare's The Tempest by Peter Greenaway on 8 pages
- Taming of the Shrew, The (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin) by William Shakespeare on 7 pages
- Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
- As You Like It (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 5 pages
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- William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) by Alexander Leggatt in Front Matter, and page 111
- The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in Production) by William Shakespeare in Back Matter
- Theater and Film: A Comparative Anthology by Robert Knopf in Back Matter
- King Lear: A Guide to the Play (Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare) by Jay L. Halio in Back Matter
- The Tragedy of King Lear (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Back Matter
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