Table of Contents

Introduction - Shakespeare, the movie, Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt; totally clueless? - Shakespeare goes Hollywood in the 1990s, Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt; race-ing Othello, re-engendering white out, Barbara Hodgon; war is mud - Branagh's "Dirty Harry V" and the types of political ambiguity. Donald K. Hedrick; top of the world, ma - Richard III and cinematic convention, - James Loehlin; popularizing Shakespeare - the artistry of France Zeffirelli, Robert Hapgood; Shakespeare wallah and colonial specularity, Valerie Wayne; poetry in motion - animating Shakespeare, Laurie E. Osborne; when Peter met Orson - the 1953 CBS "King Lear", Tony Howard; in search of nothing - mapping Lear, Kenneth S. Rothwell; a shrew for the times, Diana E. Henderson; Shakespeare in the age of post-mechanical reproduction - sexual and electronic magic in "Prospero's Books", Peter S. Donaldson; grossly gaping viewers and Jonathan Miller's "Othello", Lynda E. Boose; "Age Cannot Wither Him" - Warren Beatty's "Bugsy" as Hollywood Cleopatra, Katherine Eggert; Asta Nielsen and the mystery of "Hamlet", Ann Thompson; the family tree motel - subliming Shakespeare in "My Own Private Idaho", Sue Wiseman; the love that dare not speak Shakespeare's name - new Shakesqueer cinema, Richard Burt.

About the Author

Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts. Lynda Boose is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Dartmouth College.

Reviews

'From a soft-porn Twelfth Night to Schwarzenegger in The Last Action Hero, this timely collection scampers through Blockbusters in search of Bardflicks ... Highlights are Peters S Donaldson on digital technology as magic (and Gielgud-as-Prospero-as-Shakespeare-as-Greenaway) in Prospero's Books, and Laurie E Osbourne's sensitive reading of the joint Welsh-Russian Animated Tales.' - Plays International

'Shakespeare The Movie offers down-to-earth practical help and advice that should illuminate many of the texts we teach.' - The Use of English