By Russell Jackson
ISBN-10: 0521630231
ISBN-13: 9780521630238
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Films of the history plays might be thought to require even more by way of preparation, not so much in terms of attitude, but rather of information required for comprehension of what is to follow. Thus, Olivier’s Richard III begins with a rolling title, emblazoned on an illuminated parchment, which indicates that what is to follow is one of the legends attached to the crown – establishing the latter as a recurrent symbol – and then moves into a rearranged and augmented version of the play’s opening scene, designed to clarify the allegiances and background of the principal characters.
Proceedings of the International Conference held in Montpellier . . 1990 (Paris, 1991), pp. 181–98. 33 Lyons, ed. Chimes at Midnight, p. 269: the information is in an interview with Keith Baxter, who played Hal. 34 The sequence was included in the script used for the first read-through, but was never filmed (personal information from Kenneth Branagh and David Parfitt). 35 I have discussed the ‘missing’ scenes in the 1935 Dream in ‘A Shooting Script for the Reinhardt–Dieterle Dream’, Shakespeare Bulletin, 16/4 (Fall 1998) 39–41.
160. 38 On the theatrical fortunes of the play, see Levenson, Romeo and Juliet, chapter 2 (‘Early Revivals’) and 3 (on Brook’s 1947 production); and Patricia Tatspaugh, chapter 8 below. 39 The Listener (10 March 1937). 34 2 MICHÈLE WILLEMS Video and its paradoxes The videotape, whether it represents a Shakespeare film, a made-for-television production or a transfer of a theatrical version, has become the means by which most academics and students study a Shakespeare play. ) No catalogue of available videos of the play includes a version actually designed for the small screen, since none of the BBC titles are currently licensed for home video distribution, but the would-be viewer can always fall back on the half-hour long cartoons provided by The Animated Tales, a very successful series of videos (complete with study guides), geared to the needs of teenagers confronted with a Shakespeare play on their exam syllabus.