Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.
Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films...

Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with new work from leading contributors, this volume offers 16 essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie II: focuses on the impact of post-colonialism, globalization and digital film on adaptations of Shakespeare; takes in not only American and British films but also adaptations of Shakespeare in Europe and in the Asian diapora; explores a wide range of film, television, video and DVD adaptations from Almereyda's Hamlet to animated tales, via Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh and 1990s' Macbeths, to name...

Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with new work from leading contributors, this volume offers 16 essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie II: focuses on the impact of post-colonialism, globalization and digital film on adaptations of Shakespeare; takes in not only American and British films but also adaptations of Shakespeare in Europe and in the Asian diapora; explores a wide range of film, television, video and DVD adaptations from Almereyda's Hamlet to animated tales, via Baz Luhrmann, Kenneth Branagh and 1990s' Macbeths, to name...

Among the contributors, Lynda Boose explores the structural implications of Western culture's central daughter-father kinship exchange stories; Leah S. Marcus examines the politics of daughter-father relations in a historical study of Mary I and Elizabeth I as daughters of Henry VIII; and Diane F. Sadoff treats "good girl" novelists George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Bronte. Hortense J. Spillers focuses on the incest theme in works by Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker, while David Willbern examines Sigmund Freud's strange alteration of testimonies by women describing seduction by their...