Part I: Doing It “Straight”
Chapter 1—Michael Radford’s The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 2—Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It
Chapter 3—Julie Taymor’s The Tempest
Chapter 4—Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
Part II: BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told—Retelling Shakespeare for Political
Correctness
Chapter 5—BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told Much Ado About Nothing, dir. Brian
Percival
Chapter 6—BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told The Taming of the Shrew, dir.
David Richards
Chapter 7— BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told A Midsummer Night’s Dream, dir.
Ed Fraiman
Conclusion: Girl Power or Will Power?
Epilogue: Bridget Jones’s Baby
Magdalena Cieslak is assistant professor of English at the University of Lódz.
The field of academic research on Shakespeare and screen
adaptations has been rapidly expanding over the past decades, and
Cieslak’s interdisciplinary study provides a welcome critical
addition. . . In a highly topical book, also considering the
ongoing #MeToo debate, the author explores the tensions and
negotiations between early modern attitudes towards gender and the
way twenty-first century adaptations relate to those issues in
terms of current gender politics. . . . With all the insightful
analysis in her timely book, Cieslak has hopefully also provided an
impetus for further research in this highly topical field.
*Sederi Yearbook*
Magdalena Cieslak’s Screening Gender offers insightful readings of
Shakespeare’s romantic comedies and their representation in
twenty-first-century film. In a comprehensive survey, she
identifies the early modern constructions of gender, marriage, and
female sexuality embedded in Shakespeare’s texts and illuminates
the ways they are replicated and sometimes interrogated in
cinematic adaptations.
*Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University*
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