Shakespeare on Screen : The Roman Plays
Title | Shakespeare on Screen : The Roman Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hatchuel |
Publisher | Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 2877758427 |
Is there a specificity to adapting a Roman play to the screen ? This volume interrogates the ways directors and actors have filmed and performed the Shakespearean works known as the "Roman plays", which are, in chronological order of writing, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. In the variety of plays and story lines, common questions nevertheless arise. Is there such a thing as filmic "Romanness"? By exploring the different ways in which the Roman plays are re-interpreted in the light of Roman history, film history and the Shakespearean tradition, the papers in this volume all take part in the ceaseless investigation of what the plays keep saying not only about our vision of the past, but also about our perception of the present.
Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet
Title | Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Bladen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2023-10-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009200933 |
Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe.
Shakespeare on Screen
Title | Shakespeare on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Hatchuel |
Publisher | Publications de l'Université de Rouen et du Havre |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 9782877754781 |
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 110836926X |
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen provides a lively guide to film and television productions adapted from Shakespeare's plays. Offering an essential resource for students of Shakespeare, the companion considers topics such as the early history of Shakespeare films, the development of 'live' broadcasts from theatre to cinema, the influence of promotion and marketing, and the range of versions available in 'world cinema'. Chapters on the contexts, genres and critical issues of Shakespeare on screen offer a diverse range of close analyses, from 'Classical Hollywood' films to the BBC's Hollow Crown series. The companion also features sections on the work of individual directors Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Vishal Bhardwaj, and is supplemented by a guide to further reading and a filmography.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Jackson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2020-12-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108421164 |
Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.
Shakespeare
Title | Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Derek Traversi |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804701822 |
Excerpt from Shakespeare: The Last Phase A number of critics have suggested that I have laid too much stress on the symbolic and religious elements ln the final plays at the expense of those of romance and fantasy. The tendency to read explicit statements of Christian belief into Shakespeare seems to me indeed to have been carried considerably too far in certain places. I do not myself believe that much can usefully be said concerning Shakes peare's personal beliefs, and I am certain that none of his plays were written to illustrate religious dogmas or to point preconceived moral judgements; but - I must add - it seems to me no more than natural that a writer of his t1me and place should be aware of Christian tradition as an influence moulding his thought and that he should even seek, in his latest plays, to present in terms of a highly personal reading of that tradition some of his final conclusions about life. For taking the plays seriously, for reading them as something more than poetic fantasies in dramatic form, I offer no apology; their seriousness and originality seem to me to be clearly written on practically every page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Shakespeare and the Moving Image
Title | Shakespeare and the Moving Image PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Davies |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521435734 |
Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. In addition the volume includes a survey of previous scholarship and an invaluable filmography.