Shakespeare and the Moving Image

The Plays on Film and Television

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Edited by Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published November 1994, 278 pages, paper

ISBN 0521435730

Toward the end of the 1980s it looked as if television had displaced film as the photographic medium for bringing Shakespeare to the modern audience. In recent years there has been a renaissance of Shakespearean film by directors such as Kenneth Branagh, Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Greenaway, and Christina Ezard. In this volume, a range of writers study the best known and most entertaining film, television and video versions of Shakespeare's plays, with particular attention given to the work of Olivier, Zeffirelli and Kurosawa, and to the BBC television series. The volume also includes a survey of previous scholarship and criticism as well as a comprehensive filmography.

Contributors:Anthony Davies, Graham Holderness, Christopher McCullough, Peter Holland, Mich�le Willems, Neil Taylor, Russell Jackson, Michael Manheim, Samuel Crowl, Ace G. Pilkinton, Kenneth S. Rothwell, Robert Hapgood, E. Pearlman