Shakespeare, The Movie

Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Lynda Boose is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Dartmouth College.

'From a soft-porn Twelfth Night to Schwarzenegger in The Last Action Hero, this timely collection scampers through Blockbusters in search of Bardflicks ... Highlights are Peters S Donaldson on digital technology as magic (and Gielgud-as-Prospero-as-Shakespeare-as-Greenaway) in Prospero's Books, and Laurie E Osbourne's sensitive reading of the joint Welsh-Russian Animated Tales.' - Plays International'Shakespeare The Movie offers down-to-earth practical help and advice that should illuminate many of the texts we teach.' - The Use of English

• Introduction - Shakespeare, the movie, Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt; totally clueless? - Shakespeare goes Hollywood in the 1990s, Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt; race-ing Othello, re-engendering white out, Barbara Hodgon; war is mud - Branagh's "Dirty Harry V" and the types of political ambiguity. Donald K. Hedrick; top of the world, ma - Richard III and cinematic convention, - James Loehlin; popularizing Shakespeare - the artistry of France Zeffirelli, Robert Hapgood; Shakespeare wallah and colonial specularity, Valerie Wayne; poetry in motion - animating Shakespeare, Laurie E. Osborne; when Peter met Orson - the 1953 CBS "King Lear", Tony Howard; in search of nothing - mapping Lear, Kenneth S. Rothwell; a shrew for the times, Diana E. Henderson; Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction - sexual and electronic magic in "Prospero's Books", Peter S. Donaldson; grossly gaping viewers and Jonathan Miller's "Othello", Lynda E. Boose; "Age Cannot Wither Him" - Warren Beatty's "Bugsy" as Hollywood Cleopatra, Katherine Eggert; Asta Nielsen and the mystery of "Hamlet", Ann Thompson; the family tree motel - subliming Shakespeare in "My Own Private Idaho", Sue Wiseman; the love that dare not speak Shakespeare's name - new Shakesqueer cinema, Richard Burt.