The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Introduction; Part I. Adaptation and its Contexts: 1. Shakespeare and the film industry of the pre-sound era Judith Buchanan; 2. Adaptation and the marketing of Shakespeare in classical Hollywood Deborah Cartmell; 3. Shakespeare 'live' Peter Holland; 4. Shakespearean cinemas/global directions Mark Thornton Burnett; Part II. Genres and Plays: 5. The comedies on screen Ramona Wray; 6. The environments of tragedy on screen: Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth Peter Kirwan; 7. Two tragedies of love: Romeo and Juliet and Othello Victoria Bladen; 8. 'Sad stories of the death of kings': The Hollow Crown and the Shakespearean history play on screen Kinga Földváry; 9. The Roman plays on film Peter J. Smith; 10. Screening Shakespearean fantasy and romance in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest Antony Guy Patricia; Part III. Critical Issues: 11. Questions of racism: The Merchant of Venice and Othello Russell Jackson; 12. 'A wail in the silence': feminism, sexuality, and final meanings in King Lear films by Grigorii Kozintsev, Peter Brook, and Akira Kurosawa Courtney Lehmann; 13. Violence, tragic and comic, in Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew Patricia Lennox; Part IV. Directors: 14. The Shakespeare films of Orson Welles Emma Smith; 15. Kurosawa's Shakespeare: mute heavens, merging worlds, or the metaphors of cruelty Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède; 16. Zeffirelli's Shakespearean motion pictures: living monuments Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; 17. Kenneth Branagh: mainstreaming Shakespeare in movie theatres Sarah Hatchuel; 18. Remaking Shakespeare in India: Vishal Bhardwaj's films Poonam Trivedi; Further reading; Filmography; Index.