Shakespeare and British World War Two Film

ISBN-13: 9781108842648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Garrett A. (Pennsylvania State University) Sullivan Jr

Opis

Garrett Sullivan offers a new approach to cinematic adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare at a watershed moment in British history.

Recenzje

'There is … much to enjoy here, not least the book's methodological contributions to the study of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation.' Emma Smith, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. 'Hamlet's a loser, Leslie!': Pimpernel Smith, Hamlet and film propaganda; 2. 'What we all have in common': Fires Were Started, Macbeth and the people's war; 3. The Black-White Gentleman: The Man in Grey, Othello and the melodrama of Anglo-West Indian relations; 4. 'Bottom's not a gangster!': A Matter of Life and Death, A Midsummer Night's Dream and post-war Anglo-American relations.