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An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen. It covers the history of Shakespeare on the screen since 1899, and discusses various modes and conventions of adaptations. Thoroughly updated to include the most recent films, for instance Joss Whedon´s 2013 Much Ado About Nothing, it also explores the latest technology, such as DVD and Blu-ray, as well as live stage-to-screen productions. It also includes an exclusive interview with filmmaker John Wyver, discussing his own adaptations for the small screen.

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List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Abbreviations/Acronyms.- Preface to the Second Edition.- Introduction.- PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM.- Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts.- The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience.- Imagery: Verbal and Visual.- Bringing It All Together.- PART II THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014.- Silent Shakespeare.- The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare.- The Forties: Olivier and Welles.- The Fifties: Post-war Diversity.- The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation.- The Nineties: Branagh´s Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival.- Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century.- PART III COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES.- The Theatrical Mode.- The Realistic Mode.- The Filmic Mode.- The Periodizing Mode.- Film Genre: Conventions and Codes.- Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation.- A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa´s Kumonosu-Jo.- PART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYS.- COMEDIES.- Introductory Note.- Kenneth Branagh´s Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993).- Adrian Noble´s A Midsummer Night´s Dream (UK, 1996).- Michael Hoffman´s A Midsummer Night´s Dream (USA, 1999).- HISTORIES.- Introductory Note.- Laurence Olivier´s Henry V (UK, 1994).- Kenneth Branagh´s Henry V (UK, 1989).- Laurence Olivier´s Richard III (UK, 1955).- Richard Loncraine´s Richard III (UK, 1995).- TRAGEDIES.- Introductory.- Franco Zeffirelli´s Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968).- Baz Luhrmann´s William Shakespeare´s Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996).- Laurence Olivier´s Hamlet (UK, 1948).- Kenneth Branagh´s Hamlet (UK, 1996).- Michael Almereyda´s Hamlet (USA, 2000).- Orson Welles´s Macbeth (USA, 1948).- Roman Polanski´s Macbeth (UK, 1971).- PART V SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREEN.- Film, TV and Small Screen Shakespeare.- The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon.- The Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-ray.- Appendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen An Interview with John Wyver, Illuminations filmmaker and producer.- References.- Suggested Further Reading.- Select Filmography.- Some Useful Websites.- Glossary of Terms.- Index.

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Maurice Hindle is an independent writer and scholar. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at The Open University, and a Trustee of the Rose Playhouse, London´s first Tudor Theatre on Bankside. He also managed to completion in 2013 the AHRC-funded project he devised for De Montfort University, Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT), a collaboration with the V&A Museum, London. Among other publications, he has edited the Penguin Classics Editions of Dracula, Frankenstein and Caleb Williams.

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