Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television : gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation /
Pittman, L. Monique,1969-
New York ; Oxford : Peter Lang,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : gestures that authorize -- Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it -- The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem -- Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa. -- Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man -- The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold -- Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater -- It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
English drama
English drama
Film adaptations
Television adaptations