Shakespeare on Screen
The Tempest and Late Romances

This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare's plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.

Sarah Hatchuel (Edited by), Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Edited by)

9781107113503, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 April 2017

330 pages, 20 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.67 kg

'… Hatchuel and Vienne-Guerrin's volume offers a variety of effectively overlapping essays in which specific plays - or in this case, groups of plays - are examined from different points of view. The comparative rarity of feature film and television versions of the plays discussed in this volume allows for … particularly effective cross-referencing from essay to essay on the well-known films …' Russell Jackson, Shakespeare Survey

The second volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to The Tempest and Shakespeare's late romances, offering up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions as well as new critical reviews of older, canonical films. An international cast of authors explores not only productions from the USA and the UK, but also translations, adaptations and appropriations from Poland, Italy and France. Spanning a wide chronological range, from the first cinematic interpretation of Cymbeline in 1913 to The Royal Ballet's live broadcast of The Winter's Tale in 2014, the volume provides an extensive treatment of the plays' resonance for contemporary audiences. Supported by a film-bibliography, numerous illustrations and free online resources, the book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and teachers of film studies and Shakespeare studies.

1. Introduction: 'What have we here?': acknowledging Shakespeare's romances on screen Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
2. Thanhouser's fierce abridgement of Cymbeline Lindsay Ann Reid
3. Looking (at) women in the BBC Pericles Edel Semple
4. Scenes from Cymbeline and early television studio drama John Wyver
5. Romance for television: the BBC Cymbeline Robert S. White
6. The Winter's Tale: comparing the Polish Television Theatre and the BBC versions Jacek Fabiszak
7. The Winter's Tale's spectral endings: death, dance and doubling Judith Buchanan
8. Shakespeare's puppets: The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in the Animated Tales Maddalena Pennacchia
9. 'Something rich and strange': Jarman's defamiliarisation of The Tempest Peter J. Smith
10. The absent masque in three films of The Tempest Russell Jackson
11. Prospero's Books: hyperreality and the Western imagination Randy Laist
12. The alternating utopic revisions of The Tempest on film Delilah Bermudez Brataas
13. Screen magic in Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Taymor's The Tempest Victoria Bladen
14. Almereyda's Cymbeline: the end of teen Shakespeare Douglas M. Lanier
15. Ghost towns and alien planets: variations on Prospero's island Kinga Földváry
16. Grafting The Tempest onto Allégret's Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel Gaëlle Ginestet
17. The romances on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández
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Subject Areas: Shakespeare studies & criticism [DSGS], Literary studies: plays & playwrights [DSG], Film theory & criticism [APFA]