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In 2003, Britain's Channel 4 filmed a new television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth night--this production sets the twins, Viola and Sebastian, navigating in contemporary London. This four-part series details all the components that come together in the making of a film or television broadcast, from the initial production meetings to the finishing technological touches. The principal production people and actors are interviewed, and short excerpts...

Hamlet is Shakespeare's towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.

This Russian adaptation of King Lear, based on Boris Pasternak''s translation, is considered one of the greatest of all filmed versions of Shakespeare. It was the final film of the renowned Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. The masterful black-and-white cinematography and the memorable score by Dmitri Shostakovich make the film all the more powerful.

The classic of German silent cinema is a fine (though very loose) adaptation of William Shakespeare''s Othello. It stars two legendary German actors: Emil Jannings as Othello and Werner Krauss as the evil Iago.

"This comprehensive guide includes not only films of Shakespeare's plays but also stage performances captured on film, as well as movies based on or inspired by his life and works. This revised American edition, which contains thirty-four additional pages, covers three main categories: 'pure' Shakespeare: Films that are essentially direct versions of the original play, either in part or in whole; derivations: Films that use Shakespearean themes or...

"A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in multiplexes."--Jacket

Examines the major films which have been adapted from the Shakespeare's plays since the late twenties.

A comprehensive look at strategies that filmmakers have employed in adapting Shakespeare's plays to the cinema, this book investigates what the task of adaptation reveals about film in general and focuses on patterns and approaches shared by various cinematic works. It spans more than a century of film, beginning with an 1899 version of King John.