Queering the Shakespeare Film

Anthony Guy Patricia is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities at Concord University in Athens, West Virginia, USA.

Queering the Shakespeare Film offers an indispensable, enlightening, account of the play of dissident genders and sexualities in cinematic versions of Shakespeare’s major comedies and tragedies.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Presence of the Queer in the Shakespeare Film 1 Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the Queer Problematics of Gender, Sodomy, Marriage and Masculinity 2 The Queer Director, Gay Spectatorship and Three Cinematic Productions of Shakespeare’s 'Straightest' Play – Romeo and Juliet 3 The Visual Poetics of Gender Trouble in Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night, Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Michael Hoffman’s William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream 4 Screening the Male Homoerotics of Shakespearean Romantic Comedy on Film in Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice and Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night 5 'I Am Your Own Forever': Iago, Queer Self-Fashioning and the Cinematic Othellos of Orson Welles and Oliver Parker Conclusion Queering the Shakespeare Film in the Early Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index