List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Presence of the Queer in the Shakespeare Film
1 Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Queer Problematics of Gender, Sodomy, Marriage and Masculinity
2 The Queer Director, Gay Spectatorship and Three Cinematic Productions of Shakespeare’s 'Straightest' Play – Romeo and Juliet
3 The Visual Poetics of Gender Trouble in Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Michael Hoffman’s William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
4 Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Romantic Comedy on Film in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice and Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night
5 'I Am Your Own Forever': Iago, Queer Self-Fashioning and the Cinematic Othellos of Orson Welles and Oliver Parker
Conclusion Queering the Shakespeare Film in the Early Twenty-First Century NotesBibliographyIndex