Shakespeare on silent film
Subtitle: a strange eventful history
By: Robert Hamilton Ball
Series: Routledge library editions. Film and literature -- volume 1; Routledge library editions. Film and literature -- volume 1.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781299720534
Subjects: Film adaptations; English drama; Silent films; History and criticism; Théâtre anglais; Adaptations cinématographiques; Films muets; Histoire et critique
Notes: Originally published: 1968.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Pioners and all : the beginnings of Shakespeare film (1899-1907); title: 2. What, all in motion? : Shakespeare by vitagraph (1908-1911); title: 3. Cranks and offices : others America (1908-1911); title: 4. Inexplicable dumbshows : English shows (1908-1911); title: 5. Strange motions : the continent (1908-1911); title: 6. Increase the reels : 1912 to World War I; title: 7. These visions did appear : during the war; title: 8. Let me have leave to speak : 1920 to sound what's past is prologue.