Title: Apocalyptic Shakespeare
Description: "Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Film and video adaptations, End of the world in literature, Film adaptations, Apocalyptic literature, History and criticism, Drama, Weltuntergang, Adaptations, Literatur, Apokalyptik, Verfilmung, Film, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, film and video adaptations
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)