A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen [Paperback]

• 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 fundamental topics in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text and image.
  
• Includes suggestions for further reading, a bibliography, a filmography, a chronology and a thorough index.

Acknowledgments vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Bibliographical Note xi

Chronology xii

Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly 1
Diana E. Henderson

1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway? 8
Elsie Walker

2 Cinema Studies: “Thou Dost Usurp Authority”: Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the
Politics of Adapting Shakespeare 31
Anthony R. Guneratne

3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History 54
Robert Shaughnessy

4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet 77
Diana E. Henderson

5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacullƒ"