Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love
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Book Overview
Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love.
Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195139585
ISBN13:9780195139587
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
In a word (or two) - All Encompassing
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Brode once again nails it! Anyone even remotely interested in Willy Shake should add this study to their collection. Written in the informative and highly entertaining manner common to his work, Douglas Brode provides a detailed road map through the works of Willy Shake as they have been applied to the silver screen. Another hit!
Five Stars is just not enough!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Unlike M Jenson, who get's his facts from a cereal box, Douglas Brode thoroughly researched Shakespeare's impact on cinema in this text. Always entertaining, Brode once again shows his vast knowledge of the subject at hand, providing commonly know facts with delicious little tidbits that the lay person may not know, but needs to know.
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