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A history of Shakespeare on screen : a century of film and television

by: Rothwell, Kenneth S. (Kenneth Sprague)

Publication date: 1999

Topics: Verfilmingen, Geschichte, Verfilmung, Théâtre anglais -- Adaptations télévisées -- Histoire et critique, Film adaptations, Television adaptations, Drama, Théâtre anglais -- Adaptations cinématographiques -- Histoire et critique, Film, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Television adaptations, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées, Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616) -- Adaptations télévisées -- Histoire et critique, Shakespeare, William 1564-1616, Shakespeare, William, Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616) -- Adaptations cinématographiques -- Histoire et critique, Bibel Philemonbrief, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- film och TV-bearbetningar, English drama -- Film adaptations, Television adaptations -- History and criticism, Film adaptations -- History and criticism, English drama -- Television adaptations, Théâtre anglais -- Adaptations cinématographiques et télévisées, Motion picture plays -- Technique, Adaptations télévisées, Cinéma -- Scénarios -- Technique, English drama, Adaptations cinématographiques, Filmatisering av litterära verk

Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xiv, 352 pages : 24 cm

"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."--Jacket

Filmography and title index [p. 308]

Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-298) and index

Shakespeare in silence: from stage to screen. -- Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare. -- Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare. -- Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the art houses. -- Electronic Shakespeare: from television to the web. -- Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli. -- Shakespeare movies in the age of angst. -- Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation. -- Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond. -- The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images