Reading Shakespeare in the Movies
Subtitle: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 13, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783030288976
Description: "Analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious, unintentional connection to Shakespeare's work create non-adaptations, cinema that is unexpectedly similar to certain Shakespeare plays while remaining independent as art. These films can illuminate core semantic issues in those plays in ways that direct adaptations cannot."--back cover.
Notes: Source title: Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning (Reproducing Shakespeare)