adaptation and other futures of Shakespeare's language
First Statement of Responsibility
Simon Ryle, Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature, Film, and Critical Theory, University of Split, Croatia.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 253 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction: Shakespeare, cinema and desire --;Something from nothing: King Lear and film space --;Body space: the sublime Cleopatra --;Ghost time: unfolding Hamlet --;Re-nascences: The Tempest and new media.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Desire in literature.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Film adaptations.
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Language.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR3093
Book number
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S566
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Simon Ryle, Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature, Film, and Critical Theory, University of Split, Croatia.