Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship Between Text and Film

(Book #7 in the Screen Adaptations Series)

by Samuel Crowl

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Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1408129558

ISBN13:9781408129555

Release Date:March 2014

Publisher:Arden Shakespeare

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"

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