Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa

by Anthony Davies

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Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. Central chapters focus on Welles' Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight; Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III; Brook's King Lear; and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies then discusses the dramatic problems the sources for these films pose for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521399130

ISBN13:9780521399135

Release Date:June 1990

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Adaptations Arts, Music & Photography Direction & Production Europe Humor & Entertainment Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Movies Performing Arts Theater Wales

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