Screen Adaptations Shakespeare S King Lear

Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135973650

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King Lear by Jeffrey Kahan Pdf

Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink

Author : Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108426923

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Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear by Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Author : Yvonne Griggs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408144008

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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear by Yvonne Griggs Pdf

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic `offshoots') and discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are many references to the literary text and screenplays and the book also features quotations from directors and critics. There is plenty of discursive material here to support student work on both film and literature courses.

Author : Grigoriĭ Mikhaĭlovich Kozint︠s︡ev
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520033922

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King Lear, the Space of Tragedy by Grigoriĭ Mikhaĭlovich Kozint︠s︡ev Pdf

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441138033

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King Lear by Andrew Hiscock,Lisa Hopkins Pdf

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Author : Richard Burt,Lynda E. Boose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134457007

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Shakespeare, The Movie II by Richard Burt,Lynda E. Boose Pdf

Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, this text offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film or cultural studies.

Author : Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134707522

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Shakespeare, The Movie by Lynda E. Boose,Richard Burt Pdf

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare. Taking a fresh look at the Bard an his place in the movies, Shakespeare, The Movie includes a selection of what is presently available in filmic format to the Shakespeare student or scholar, ranging across BBC television productions, filmed theatre productions, and full screen adaptations by Kenneth Branagh and Franco Zeffirelli. Films discussed include: * Amy Heckerling's Clueless * Gus van Sant's My Own Private Idaho * Branagh's Henry V * Baz Luhrman's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet * John McTiernan's Last Action Hero * Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books * Zeffirelli's Hamlet.

Author : Peter E.S. Babiak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476662541

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Shakespeare Films by Peter E.S. Babiak Pdf

This study reexamines the recognized "canon" of films based on Shakespeare's plays, and argues that it should be broadened by breaking with two unnecessary standards: the characterization of the director as "auteur" of a play's screen adaptation, and the convention of excluding films with contemporary language or modern or alternative settings or which use the play as a subtext. The emphasis is shifted from the director's contribution to the film's social, cultural and historical contexts. The work of the auteurs is reevaluated within present-day contexts, preserving the established canon while proposing new criteria for inclusion.

Author : Anthony Davies,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521435730

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Shakespeare and the Moving Image by Anthony Davies,Stanley Wells Pdf

Towards the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced cinema as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearian cinema, including Kenneth Branagh's Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books and Christine Edzard's As You Like It. In this volume a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays. Particular attention is given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC Television series. In addition the volume includes a survey of previous scholarship and an invaluable filmography.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108421164

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen by Russell Jackson Pdf

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Author : Robert Hamilton Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134980987

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Shakespeare on Silent Film by Robert Hamilton Ball Pdf

In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.

Author : Michael Neill,David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191036149

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Neill,David Schalkwyk Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The collection is organised in five sections. The substantial opening section introduces the plays by placing them in a variety of illuminating contexts: as well looking at ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy, it addresses questions of genre by examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and medieval past, by considering tragedy's relationship to other genres (including history plays, tragicomedy, and satiric drama), and by showing how Shakespeare's tragedies respond to the pressures of early modern politics, religion, and ideas about humanity and the natural world. The second section is devoted to current textual issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with the extraordinary diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The thirteen essays of the book's final section seek to expand readers' awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia. Offering the richest and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy currently available, the Handbook will be an indispensable resource for students both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the lively and provocative character of its essays make will it required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.

Author : Melissa Croteau,Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786453511

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Apocalyptic Shakespeare by Melissa Croteau,Carolyn Jess-Cooke Pdf

This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 071906225X

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King Lear by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

Study of various actors and directors presenting performances of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Pradipta Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527573772

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The Fluid Frame in Cinema by Pradipta Mukherjee Pdf

This book is a passionate rendezvous with cinema, the most collaborative of art forms. The essays here explore the possibilities offered by a close reading of cinema that keeps cultural contexts and their socio-historical roots firmly in sight. This collection does not consider the “frame”, that oft-referenced basic unit of vision in films, as a limiting structure. Rather, it brings into purview what is left out. Divided into three sections, the essays look firstly at Indian cinema, both Bollywood and regional films, tracing the journey of Indian cinema from the periphery to the center. The second section focuses on Adaptation Studies and takes an unorthodox look at classic adaptations of literature. The final section is a reappraisal of directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick. The essays propose that, even though the film as an artwork does not change fundamentally over time, it still strikes a contemporary critical gaze differently.