Shakespeare
Subtitle: the two traditions
By: H.R. Coursen.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1950-; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Film and video adaptations; Film adaptations -- History and criticism
Description: The purpose of this book is to examine recent productions of Shakespeare on stage and film and to lay out some interpretive guidelines for responding to the scripts as recreated in these two very different formats and within the conflicted environment of shifting critical paradigms. The two traditions - Shakespeare on stage and Shakespeare on film - have experienced a midair collision with postmodernism. The results are beginning to be chronicled.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-259) and index.