Shakespeare on Film

Incisive, and covering a broad spectrum of Shakespeare films, "Shakespeare on Film" places each individual film in its cultural context and looks at its place in the canon of Shakespearean production as a whole.

• A historical contextualising of the emergence, growth and developments of Shakespeare on film
• Textual readings of a broad spectrum of Shakespeare films, from a range of critical perspectives ? auteurist, historicist, reception studies
• Examines questions of identity, taxonomy and labelling ? in particular as they are raised by the extensive corpus of silent Shakespeare films, foreign language films and narrative spin-offs
• Considers the place of Shakespeare as a cultural icon in contemporary culture, and the ways in which the screen has helped not only to reflect but to mould this product