Shakespeare's cinema of love

Shakespeare's cinema of love
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9781526107817
ISBN-13 : 1526107813
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's cinema of love by : R. S. White

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be an enduring source for romantic tragedy on screen. The nature of generic indebtedness has not gained recognition because it is elusive and not always easy to recognise. The book traces generic links between Shakespeare's comedies of love and screen genres such as romantic comedy, 'screwball' comedy and musicals, as well as clarifying the use of common conventions defining the genres, such as mistaken identity, 'errors', disguise and 'shrew-taming'. Speculative, challenging and entertaining, the book will appeal to those interested in Shakespeare, movies and the representation of love in narratives.

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love
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Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9780573705205
ISBN-13 : 0573705208
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare in Love by : Lee Hall

Young Will Shakespeare has writers block... the deadline for his new play is fast approaching but hes in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse – Viola. This beautiful young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play. Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms and inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece.

Shakespeare in Love

Shakespeare in Love
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Publisher : Gardners Books
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 0571201083
ISBN-13 : 9780571201082
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare in Love by : Marc Norman

The companion screenplay to the acclaimed Miramax/Universal/Bedford Falls Company Film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, and Dame Judy Dench. It is the summer of 1593, and the rising young star of London's theater scene, Will Shakespeare, faces a scourge like no other: a paralyzing bout of writer's block. The great Elizabethan age of entertainment unfolds around him, but Will is without inspiration, he just can't seem to work up any enthusiasm for his latest play, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter." What he needs is a muse. She appears when Lady Viola, desperate to become an actor in a time when women are forbidden on stage, disguises herself as a man to audition for Will's play. But the guise slips away as their passion ignites. Now Will's quill again begins to flow, turning love into words, as Viola becomes his real-life Juliet and Romeo finds his reason to exist.

100 Shakespeare Films

100 Shakespeare Films
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 477
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ISBN-10 : 9781838714086
ISBN-13 : 1838714081
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis 100 Shakespeare Films by : Daniel Rosenthal

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films. Directors as diverse as Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann and Julie Taymor have transferred Shakespeare's plays from stage to screen with unforgettable results. Spanning a century of cinema, from a silent short of 'The Tempest' (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' (2006), Daniel Rosenthal's up-to-date selection takes in the most important, inventive and unusual Shakespeare films ever made. Half are British and American productions that retain Shakespeare's language, including key works such as Olivier's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Welles' 'Othello' and 'Chimes at Midnight', Branagh's 'Henry V' and 'Hamlet', Luhrmann's 'Romeo + Juliet' and Taymor's 'Titus'. Alongside these original-text films are more than 30 genre adaptations: titles that aim for a wider audience by using modernized dialogue and settings and customizing Shakespeare's plots and characters, transforming 'Macbeth' into a pistol-packing gangster ('Joe Macbeth' and 'Maqbool') or reimagining 'Othello' as a jazz musician ('All Night Long'). There are Shakesepeare-based Westerns ('Broken Lance', 'King of Texas'), musicals ('West Side Story', 'Kiss Me Kate'), high-school comedies ('10 Things I Hate About You', 'She's the Man'), even a sci-fi adventure ('Forbidden Planet'). There are also films dominated by the performance of a Shakespearean play ('In the Bleak Midwinter', 'Shakespeare in Love'). Rosenthal emphasises the global nature of Shakespearean cinema, with entries on more than 20 foreign-language titles, including Kurosawa's 'Throne of Blood and Ran', Grigori Kozintsev's 'Russian Hamlet' and 'King Lear', and little-known features from as far afield as 'Madagascar' and 'Venezuela', some never released in Britain or the US. He considers the films' production and box-office history and examines the film-makers' key interpretive decisions in comparison to their Shakespearean sources, focusing on cinematography, landscape, music, performance, production design, textual alterations and omissions. As cinema plays an increasingly important role in the study of Shakespeare at schools and universities, this is a wide-ranging, entertaining and accessible guide for Shakespeare teachers, students and enthusiasts.

Jane Austen and William Shakespeare

Jane Austen and William Shakespeare
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9783030256890
ISBN-13 : 3030256898
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Jane Austen and William Shakespeare by : Marina Cano

This volume explores the multiple connections between the two most canonical authors in English, Jane Austen and William Shakespeare. The collection reflects on the historical, literary, critical and filmic links between the authors and their fates. Considering the implications of the popular cult of Austen and Shakespeare, the essays are interdisciplinary and comparative: ranging from Austen’s and Shakespeare’s biographies to their presence in the modern vampire saga Twilight, passing by Shakespearean echoes in Austen’s novels and the authors’ afterlives on the improv stage, in wartime cinema, modern biopics and crime fiction. The volume concludes with an account of the Exhibition “Will & Jane” at the Folger Shakespeare Library, which literally brought the two authors together in the autumn of 2016. Collectively, the essays mark and celebrate what we have called the long-standing “love affair” between William Shakespeare and Jane Austen—over 200 years and counting.

Romeo and Ethel

Romeo and Ethel
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9798567127933
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Romeo and Ethel by : William Shakespeare

This book is a perfect gift for any woman named Ethel. "Romeo and Ethel" is a modified version of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". In this version, the main character is not Juliet, but Ethel. The book has a beautiful cover and font. There are 10 pictures inside the book. We also have versions with other names. "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which, if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. This is a story about Romeo and Ethel."

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781108426923
ISBN-13 : 1108426921
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear by : Victoria Bladen

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781107019775
ISBN-13 : 110701977X
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by : Claire McEachern

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 12
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ISBN-10 : 9780521685016
ISBN-13 : 052168501X
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by : Russell Jackson

This companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema with strong coverage Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.

Shakespeare in Love (High School Edition)

Shakespeare in Love (High School Edition)
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Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Total Pages : 143
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780573707940
ISBN-13 : 0573707944
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare in Love (High School Edition) by : Lee Hall

Young Will Shakespeare has writers block... the deadline for his new play is fast approaching but hes in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse – Viola. This beautiful young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing (including breaking the law) to appear in his next play. Against a bustling background of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms and inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece.