Shakespeare on Film

Shakespeare on Film

Author: Shaughnessy, Robert (EDT)
Category: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN: 9780312214487
Format : Paperback
Publisher : St. Martin's Press

  

This collection of contemporary criticism highlights the ways in which recent discussion of Shakespeare on film has drawn upon the theoretical perspectives of Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism, generating a radical reappraisal of Shakespearean cinema which has itself experienced a revival in the last decade. Ranging widely across the canon of Shakespeare films, from Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the essays address the cultural politics of film adaptation from a variety of angles, offering readings of individual films -- Hamlet Henry V, The Tempest -- but also raising larger questions about the nature, purpose and future direction of Shakespearean cinema.