Shakespeare on Film

Maurice Hindle is an independent writer and scholar. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at The Open University, and a Trustee of the Rose Playhouse, London's first Tudor Theatre on Bankside. He also managed to completion in 2013 the AHRC-funded project he devised for De Montfort University, Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT), a collaboration with the V&A Museum, London. Among other publications, he has edited the Penguin Classics Editions of Dracula, Frankenstein and Caleb Williams.

Praise for the first edition: "Comprehensive, reliable and authoritative." - Robert Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK "Hindle's Studying Shakespeare on Film is a storehouse of pedagogical resources and interpretive riches. At once encyclopedic in scope and finely textured in detail, this cinematically literate volume takes Shakespeare films seriously as films. It deftly shows students the way to do the same." - Richard Rambuss, Emory University, USA "... [A] surprisingly approachable examination of the Bard on screen..." - Film Review "Maurice Hindle's study is comprehensive and well-grounded; it is a remarkable guide for students exploring some of the most exciting and influential Shakespeare adaptations; it introduces the reader to detailed critical knowledge and demonstrates the use of filmic language when analysing and discussing Shakespeare on screen." - Hans Schwarze, Learning, Media and Technology Praise for the second edition: "Hindle's Shakespeare On Film is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to studying Shakespeare's plays on screen and essential reading for teachers and students alike." - Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Surrey, UK "In this highly recommended second edition of Shakespeare on Film, Maurice Hindle offers a rich, up-to-date survey of cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare. In addition to fascinating case studies and essays on individual films, the book critically engages with how we now view such films in very different ways across a wide range of digital media such as television, DVD and Blu-ray." - Paul Newland, Aberystwyth University, UK

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations/AcronymsPreface to the Second EditionIntroductionPART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILMFilming and Staging Shakespeare: Some ContrastsThe Audience: Individual and Collective ExperienceImagery: Verbal and VisualBringing It All TogetherPART II THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014Silent ShakespeareThe Thirties: Hollywood ShakespeareThe Forties: Olivier and WellesThe Fifties: Post-war DiversityThe Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic InnovationThe Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film RevivalShakespeare on Film in the 21st CenturyPART III COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRESThe Theatrical ModeThe Realistic ModeThe Filmic ModeThe Periodizing ModeFilm Genre: Conventions and CodesGenre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film AdaptationA Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-JoPART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYSCOMEDIESIntroductory NoteKenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993)Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996)Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999)HISTORIESIntroductory NoteLaurence Olivier's Henry V (UK, 1994)Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (UK, 1989)Laurence Olivier's Richard III (UK, 1955)Richard Loncraine's Richard III (UK, 1995)TRAGEDIESIntroductoryFranco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968)Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996)Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (UK, 1948)Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK, 1996)Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (USA, 2000)Orson Welles's Macbeth (USA, 1948)Roman Polanski's Macbeth (UK, 1971)PART V SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREENFilm, TV and Small Screen ShakespeareThe BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete CanonThe Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-rayAppendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen An Interview with John Wyver, Illuminations filmmaker and producerReferencesSuggested Further ReadingSelect FilmographySome Useful WebsitesGlossary of TermsIndex.