Shakespeare on Film

Maurice Hindle is an independent writer and scholar. He is currently Visiting Fellow in the Department of English at The Open University, and a Trustee of the Rose Playhouse, London's first Tudor Theatre on Bankside. He also managed to completion in 2013 the AHRC-funded project he devised for De Montfort University, Shakespearean London Theatres (ShaLT), a collaboration with the V&A Museum, London. Among other publications, he has edited the Penguin Classics Editions of Dracula, Frankenstein and Caleb Williams.

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.