THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE ON FILM EDITED BY RUSSELL JACKSON CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
THE CAMBRIDGE COMPAN ION TO SHAKESPEARE ON FILM EDITED BY RUSSELL JACKSON
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CONTENTS List of contributors page xi Preface xin A note on references xiv Introduction:Shakespeare,films and the marketplace I RUSSELL JACKSON PART 1 ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS I From play-script to screenplay RUSSELL JACKSON 2 Video and its paradoxes 35 MICHELE WILLEMS 3 Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history:the case of Richard Ill 47 BARBARA FREEDMAN 4 Shakespeare and movie genre:the case of Hamlet 之 HARRY KEYISHIAN PART 2.GENRES AND PLAYS 5 The comedies on film 85 MICHAEL HATTAWAY 6 Filming Shakespeare's history:three films of Richard Ill 99 H.R.COURSEN 7 Hamlet,Macbeth and King Lear on film J.LAWRENCE GUNTNER ix
CONTENTS List of contributors page xi Preface xiii A note on references xiv Introduction:Shakespeare, films and the marketplace 1 russell jackson PART 1 · ADAPTAT ION AND ITS CONTEXTS 1 From play-script to screenplay 15 russell jackson 2 Video and its paradoxes 35 michèle willems 3 Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history:the case of Richard III 47 barbara freedman 4 Shakespeare and movie genre:the case of Hamlet 72 harry keyishian PART 2 · GENRES AND PLAYS 5 The comedies on film 85 michael hattaway 6 Filming Shakespeare’s history:three films of Richard III 99 h. r. coursen 7 Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film 117 j. lawrence guntner ix
LIST OF CONTENTS 8 The tragedies of love on film I35 PATRICIA TATSPAUGH PART3·DIRECTORS 9 The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier I63 ANTHONY DAVIES Io Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare I83 PAMELA MASON II Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear I99 MARK SOKOLYANSKY I2 Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare 2I2 DEBORAH CARTMELL I3 Flamboyant realist:Kenncth Branagh 222 SAMUEL CROWL PART 4.CRITICAL ISSUES 14 Looking at Shakespeare's women on film 241 CAROL CHILLINGTON RUTTER I5 National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films 26I NEIL TAYLOR 16 Shakespeare the illusionist:filming the supernatural 274 NEIL FORSYTH I7 Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots 295 TONY HOWARD Further reading 3I4 Filmograpby 3r8 Index 325
8 The tragedies of love on film 135 patricia tatspaugh PART 3 · D IRECTORS 9 The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier 163 anthony davies 10 Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare 183 pamela mason 11 Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet and King Lear 199 mark sokolyansky 12 Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare 212 deborah cartmell 13 Flamboyant realist: Kenneth Branagh 222 samuel crowl PART 4 · CR IT ICAL ISSUES 14 Looking at Shakespeare’s women on film 241 carol chillington rutter 15 National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films 261 neil taylor 16 Shakespeare the illusionist:filming the supernatural 274 neil forsyth 17 Shakespeare’s cinematic offshoots 295 tony howard Further reading 314 Filmography 318 Index 325 list of contents x
CONTRIBUTORS DEBORAH CARTMELL,De Montfort University SAMUEL CROWL,Ohio University H.R.COURSEN,University of Maine,Augusta ANTHONY DAVIES,Stratford-upon-Avon NEIL FORSYTH,Universite de Lausanne BARBARA FREEDMAN,Tufts University MICHAEL HATTAWAY,University of Sheffield TONY HOWARD,University of Warwick RUSSELL JACKSON,The Shakespeare Institute,University of Birmingham J.LAWRENCE GUNTNER,Technische Universitat,Braunschweig HARRY KEYISHIAN,Fairleigh Dickinson University PAMELA MASON,The Shakespeare Institute,University of Birmingham CAROL CHILLINGTON RUTTER,University of Warwick MARK SOKOLYANSKY,University of Odessa NEIL TAYLOR,University of Surrey Rochampton PATRICIA TATSPAUGH,London MICHELE WILLEMS,Universite de Rouen xi
CONTRIBUTORS deborah cartmell, De Montfort University samuel crowl, Ohio University h. r. coursen, University of Maine, Augusta anthony davies, Stratford-upon-Avon neil forsyth, Université de Lausanne barbara freedman, Tufts University michael hattaway, University of Sheffield tony howard, University of Warwick russell jackson, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham j. lawrence guntner, Technische Universität, Braunschweig harry keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University pamela mason, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham carol chillington rutter, University of Warwick mark sokolyan sky, University of Odessa neil taylor, University of Surrey Roehampton patricia tatspaugh, London michèle willems, Université de Rouen xi