A History of Shakespeare on Screen
A Century of Film and Television

This edition of A History of Shakespeare on Screen updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.

Kenneth S. Rothwell (Author)

9780521835374, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 2004

400 pages, 29 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.7 kg

"...The best book this reviewer has ever read on this subject, this title is a must for any library, where it will serve undergraduates through faculty interested in film and/or Shakespeare." Choice

A History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in megaplexes. Topics include the silent era, Hollywood in the Golden Age, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles, the television scene to include the BBC plays, the avant-garde cinema of Jarman and Greenaway, and non-Anglophone contributions from Japan and elsewhere. This second edition updates the chronology to the year 2003 and includes a new chapter on such recent films as John Madden's Shakespeare in Love, Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labours Lost, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, and Billy Morrissette's Scotland, Pa. A filmography, bibliography, and index of names makes it invaluable as a one-volume reference work for specialists, while the accessible style will ensure that it also appeals to a wider audience of Shakespeareans and cinephiles.

Preface and acknowledgments to second edition
Preface to first edition
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Shakespeare in silence: from stage to screen
2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare
3. Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare
4. Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the art houses
5. Electronic Shakespeare: from television to the web
6. Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli
7. Shakespeare movies in the age of angst
8. Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation
9. Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond
10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images
11. Shakespeare in love, in love with Shakespeare: the adoration after the millennium.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]