Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Diana E. Henderson is Associate Professor of Literature at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender and Performance (1995) and Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media (2006).

"With this collection, Henderson...and her fellow contributors rocket Shakespearian studies into the 21st Century...the collection offers a variety of ways to study Shakespearian screen adaptations, thus providing an exciting new avenue of critical study for those looking to break free of the more staid critical analysis of old. Highly recommended" Choice “This superb collection of essays takes the study of Shakespeare on film to a whole new level, telling us where the discipline has reached and where we can go from here. From problems of film-acting and gender to cross-culturalism and pixelvision, the book covers an enormous range of approaches as it considers the full gamut of Shakespeare films (old and new; good, bad and indifferent). It may be a ‘Concise Companion’ but there is nothing skimped here; instead, the collection is as rich and provocative as one could imagine and as exhilarating as the films themselves.” Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame “The essays are superbly interwoven with the overall structure of the volume. The work presented in this volume is really impressive. It covers every necessary aspect needed to understand the discipline and completes what has been published so far opening new avenues for research. All that rethinking done in the past years has been appropriately summarized and expanded in this magnificent volume. It presents enough material to “keep making sense of our subject, and await the next viewing”. What more could one ask for? The careful reading of the essays included in this companion will elicit from us the wish to “continue to discern something meaningful”.”Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso, University of Vigo, Sederi "A serious and penetrating series of articles that supply dimensions we may not have been aware of and that enhance our understanding of the different Shakespeares we see on the screen … All libraries connected with cultural and media studies should have this book on their shelves."Reference Reviews

• Acknowledgments viiNotes on Contributors viiiBibliographical Note xiChronology xiiIntroduction: Through a Camera, Darkly 1Diana E. Henderson1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway? 8Elsie Walker2 Cinema Studies: “Thou Dost Usurp Authority”: Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and thePolitics of Adapting Shakespeare 31Anthony R. Guneratne3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History 54Robert Shaughnessy4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet 77Diana E. Henderson5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting ƒyƒnCinema ƒyƒnShakespeare 96Barbara Hodgdon6 Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh’s Henry Vand Taymor’s Titus 112Pascale Aebischer7 Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy 133Mark Thornton Burnett8 Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare 155Anthony Dawson9 Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization 176Douglas Lanier10 Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form 197Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio11 Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and “Wisdom” in Almereyda’sHamlet 216Peter S. DonaldsonAfterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare 238Kathleen McLuskieSelect Bibliography 250Index 253