"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative...

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen.

• Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical and filmic approaches.
  
• Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history.
  
• Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject of Shakespeare on screen.
  
• Also enables readers to explore...

"Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges. Frozen in time on the page or screen, some of those collaborations continue to speak, but denuded of their immediate moment and surroundings; we are left to supplement the traces. In recovering that past, the present takes on greater clarity and contrast. But the proof must be in the telling. A writer lifts a pen. Enter the multiple forces political and economic, psychological, formal, and technical that serendipitously transform imagination into memory. Let the collaborative...