List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations/Acronyms
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
PART I: SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM
Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts
The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience
Imagery: Verbal and Visual
Bringing It All Together
PART II THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014
Silent Shakespeare
The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare
The Forties: Olivier and Welles
The Fifties: Post-war Diversity
The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation
The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival
Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century
PART III COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES
The Theatrical Mode
The Realistic Mode
The Filmic Mode
The Periodizing Mode
Film Genre: Conventions and Codes
Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation
A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Jo
PART IV: CRITICAL ESSAYS
COMEDIES
Introductory Note
Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993)
Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996)
Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999)
HISTORIES
Introductory Note
Laurence Olivier's Henry V (UK, 1994)
Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (UK, 1989)
Laurence Olivier's Richard III (UK, 1955)
Richard Loncraine's Richard III (UK, 1995)
TRAGEDIES
Introductory
Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968)
Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996)
Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (UK, 1948)
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK, 1996)
Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (USA, 2000)
Orson Welles's Macbeth (USA, 1948)
Roman Polanski's Macbeth (UK, 1971)
PART V SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREEN
Film, TV and Small Screen Shakespeare
The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon
The Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-ray
Appendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen An Interview with John Wyver, Illuminations filmmaker and producer
References
Suggested Further Reading
Select Filmography
Some Useful Websites
Glossary of Terms
Index.
