By William Shakespeare
ISBN-10: 0878300880
ISBN-13: 9780878300884
For the 1st time, a photographic facsimile of the 1st Folio of Shakespeare's performs comes in one reasonable quantity. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies offers actors, administrators, and an individual attracted to Shakespeare entry to the performs as Shakespeare estimated them. In returning to the unique textual content, actors and administrators can locate solutions to the various difficulties they locate getting ready a play of Shakespeare. integrated is the creation to performing from the 1st Folio and its accompanying performing advisor and thesaurus, making this the main beneficial device for all who love the Bard.
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6. Donald Hancock, "War Is Mud: Branagh's Dirty Harry V and the Types of Political Ambiguity," in Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, ed. Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt (London: Routledge, 1997), 45-66; 57. 7. Alan Dent, "Text-editing Shakespeare," in Hamlet: The Film and the Play, ed. Alan Dent (London: World Film Publications, 1948). 8. : Overlook, 1996), 16. 9. McKellen, Richard HI, 15. 10. " 11. That Olivier could be selfless as an actor can be seen in his production of The Prince and the Showgirl, as he builds up and carefully shapes Marilyn Monroe's role at his own expense.
My primary interest in the following pages will be in film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. But I will discuss broadcast television and video in chapter 6, and I will make incidental reference to television Shakespeare throughout. Among the many ways of thinking about the interrelationships among these different technologies and the extent to which each creates its own "generic" expectation, we might consider, for instance, the influence of television on film. With Shakespeare, there are unexpected connections.
Shakespearean films are shaped by not only the theatrical styles and methods that often lie behind them but also the cinematic movements, styles, and aesthetic and technological norms of the period in which they are made. Which is another way of saying that Shakespearean films are something special-each film is nearly always treated as "exceptional" to some degree or other, something to be noted, notable within the larger discourse of film culture-and at the same time each film fits, particularly in retrospect, into specific generic categories.