Shakespeare is one of the world's most widely taught and most demanding authors. Fortunately, many of his plays have been adapted for film and television, and these productions are a valuable aid for helping students understand and respond to his works. This reference shows teachers and students how to master the techniques of discussing productions of his plays on film and television. It distinguishes the advantages and limitations of film and television as media for representing Shakespeare's dramas. The book then examines strategies for incorporating film and television productions in...
Shakespeare is one of the world's most widely taught and most demanding authors. Fortunately, many of his plays have been adapted for film and tele...
"The Tempest" was first published in 1623 and is probably the last play Shakespeare wrote by himself. The product of his artistic maturity, it has inspired a variety of modern adaptations and remains one of his most popular plays. While its plot is fairly straightforward, "The Tempest" addresses numerous issues and topics current in the 17th century, such as magic and colonialism. Scholars, in turn, have responded by generating a vast body of criticism. This reference is a comprehensive guide to the play.
The volume begins with a brief consideration of the play's textual history,...
"The Tempest" was first published in 1623 and is probably the last play Shakespeare wrote by himself. The product of his artistic maturity, it has ...
"Shakespeare in Production" examines a number of plays in context. Included are the 1936 "Romeo and Juliet," unpopular with critics of filmed Shakespeare, but very much a photoplay if its time; the opening sequences of filmed Hamlets which span more than seventy years; "The Comedy of Errors" on television, where production of this script is almost impossible; and the Branagh "Much Ado About Nothing," a popular film discussed in the context of comedy as a genre. In considering "Henry V, " this study looks at fifty years of Pistol on film and television to illustrate how changing times...
"Shakespeare in Production" examines a number of plays in context. Included are the 1936 "Romeo and Juliet," unpopular with critics of filmed Shakespe...
Shakespeare s works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. Shakespeare Translated looks at the way certain plays particularly Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear have been recontextualized into films like O and King of Texas, or television shows such as -The Gilmore Girls-, -Cheers-, and -Clueless-. This book illustrates how Romeo and Juliet is the most shamelessly appropriated of Shakespeare s scripts for contemporary use because its...
Shakespeare s works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. <...
Although Shakespeare is one of the world's most widely taught authors, he is also one of the world's most demanding. Because of the popularity and sophistication of his works, numerous film and television adaptations of his plays have been made--some decades ago and others very recently. Shakespeare films are coming out at an unprecedented rate, as audiences continue to respond to the richness of his works. These productions are a valuable means of introducing students to Shakespeare's plays, for the film and television versions reflect different interpretations of his works. Although some...
Although Shakespeare is one of the world's most widely taught authors, he is also one of the world's most demanding. Because of the popularity and sop...
Death in Sevilla: Agent Scott Winthrop is called out of retirement to help Spanish authorities thwart an attempt on King Juan Carlos during the April festival in Seville. Posing as a journalist and accompanied by a beautiful young photographer, Winthrop soon finds himself the target of the would-be assassins. He makes an escape from their headquarters and a hair raising crash landing in Sevilla's cemetery, but finds he has only increased his own problems and those of the authorities he is trying to help. Full Circle: Bill Chambers receives a call from the wife of his best friend in the Air...
Death in Sevilla: Agent Scott Winthrop is called out of retirement to help Spanish authorities thwart an attempt on King Juan Carlos during the April ...
While working in a British library, Professor Harry Winston discovers a lost play by Shakespeare. In a version of detective story, he authenticates his finding and sits atop the academic pyramid. But like Icarus or Humpty Dumpty, he has a great fall. He runs afoul of the puritanical moral code of the nasty little college where he has taught for years. Will he decide to drag anyone with him in his downward journey? Has he mastered the "tuck-and-roll" technique well enough to survive? He wonders.
While working in a British library, Professor Harry Winston discovers a lost play by Shakespeare. In a version of detective story, he authenticates hi...
Identical twins, Bruce and Brendon Laird, take different paths after Bruce ruins his knee playing football and Brendon goes off to the middle east in the Army. Bruce becomes a famous scholar, discovering the Ur-Hamlet, legendary immediate source of Shakespeare's play. He is also given a look at a cache of letters from the legendary L.S. Marker. However, he comes to grief at small Oliver Otis College, for what that institution considers 'moral turpitude.' He alienates the woman who had received the Marker letters and loses a magnificent opportunity. He also loses Bettina Arujo and Robbie...
Identical twins, Bruce and Brendon Laird, take different paths after Bruce ruins his knee playing football and Brendon goes off to the middle east in ...
