Authorizing Shakespeare on film and television
Subtitle: gender, class, and ethnicity in adaptation
By: Monique L. Pittman
Series: Studies in Shakespeare -- v. 19
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781433106644
Subjects: Television adaptations; English drama; History and criticism; Film adaptations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : gestures that authorize; title: Adaptations of the father: paternal authority goes imperial in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and As you like it; title: The liberal-humanist Shakespeare in Michael Radford's The merchant of Venice: Ethnic tolerance and the Portia problem; title: Deep-fried American dream: class striving under the heat lamp in Scotland, Pa.; title: Teen Shakespeare and the trouble with gender: 10 things I hate about you and She's the man; title: The Bard and the beeb : televisual authority and Shakespeare retold; title: Tracing Hamlet in slings and arrows: Fathers haunt the theater; title: It's not tv, it's Shakespeare: literary-historical adaptation in HBO's Rome.