Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture

Michael Anderegg is professor of English at the University of North Dakota. He is the editor of Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television, and author of David Lean and William Wyler.

"Andregg provides an eloquent illustration of how, when Welles scholarship is at its best, it avoids the biographical and panoramic in favor of a particular theme or angle of investigation and, in the course of pursuing that angle, brings a fresh understanding to the Wellesian tapestry as a whole." -- Catherine Benamou, Michigan Quarterly Review "A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work -- particullarly Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records -- but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole." -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of This is Orson Welles

• 1. Shakespeare in Las Vegas: Welles and American Culture 2. "Raise Hell with Everything": Shakespeare as Event 3. "Cashing in on the Classics": Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records 4. Welles/Shakespeare/Film: An Overview 5. Shakespeare Rides Again: The Republic Macbeth 6. The Texts of Othello 7. Chimes at Midnight: Rhetoric and History 8. Welles as Performer: From Shakespeare to Brecht Epilogue