Description
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of four major film directors to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Focusing on the work of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli, each essay assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the film director covered and of the film director on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare.
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli focuses on the influence of four major film directors on the afterlife of Shakespeare.
About the Author
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. His books include Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (2013). Courtney Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Film Studies and the Director of the Humanities Scholars Program at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. she is author of Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern (2002) and Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' (2010). Marguerite H. Rippy is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Literature and Languages at Marymount University, Arlington. She is the author of Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective (2009). Ramona Wray is Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She is editor of The Tragedy of Mariam (2012), co-editor of Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle (2000) and Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006).
Book Information
ISBN 9781472579584
Author Professor Mark Thornton Burnett
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Great Shakespeareans
Weight(grams) 338g
Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli focuses on the influence of four major film directors on the afterlife of Shakespeare.
About the Author
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. His books include Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007) and Shakespeare and World Cinema (2013). Courtney Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Film Studies and the Director of the Humanities Scholars Program at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. she is author of Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern (2002) and Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' (2010). Marguerite H. Rippy is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Literature and Languages at Marymount University, Arlington. She is the author of Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective (2009). Ramona Wray is Reader in English at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She is editor of The Tragedy of Mariam (2012), co-editor of Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle (2000) and Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006).
Book Information
ISBN 9781472579584
Author Professor Mark Thornton Burnett
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Great Shakespeareans
Weight(grams) 338g
