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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818214003321

Autore

Hatchuel Sarah

Titolo

Shakespeare : from stage to screen / / Sarah Hatchuel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-15002-7

1-280-54031-1

0-511-21483-9

0-511-21662-9

0-511-21125-2

0-511-31540-6

0-511-48361-9

0-511-21302-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

English drama

Film adaptations - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Shakespeare, from stage to screen: a historical and aesthetic approach -- From theatre showing to cinema telling -- Masking film construction: towards a 'real' world -- Reflexive constructions: from meta-theatre to meta-cinema? -- Screenplay, narration and subtext: the example of Hamlet.

Sommario/riassunto

How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history, psychoanalysis and semiotics to analyse how the plays are fundamentally altered in their screen versions. She identifies distinct strategies chosen by film directors to appropriate the plays. Instead of providing just play-by-play or film-by-film analyses, the book addresses the main issues of theatre/film aesthetics, making such theories and concepts accessible before applying them to practical cases. Her book also offers guidelines for the study of sequences in Shakespearean adaptations and includes



examples from all the major films from the 1899 King John, through the adaptations by Olivier, Welles and Branagh, to Taymor's 2000 Titus and beyond. This book is aimed at scholars, teachers and students of Shakespeare and film studies, providing a clear and logical apparatus with which to examine Shakespearean screen adaptations.