A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Acknowledgments vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Bibliographical Note xi

Chronology xii

Introduction: Through a Camera, Darkly 1
Diana E. Henderson

1 Authorship: Getting Back to Shakespeare: Whose Film is it Anyway? 8
Elsie Walker

2 Cinema Studies: “Thou Dost Usurp Authority”: Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the
Politics of Adapting Shakespeare 31
Anthony R. Guneratne

3 Theatricality: Stage, Screen, and Nation: Hamlet and the Space of History 54
Robert Shaughnessy

4 The Artistic Process: Learning from Campbell Scott’s Hamlet 77
Diana E. Henderson

5 Cinematic Performance: Spectacular Bodies: Acting ƒyƒnCinema ƒyƒnShakespeare 96
Barbara Hodgdon

6 Gender Studies: Shakespeare, Sex, and Violence: Negotiating Masculinities in Branagh’s Henry V
and Taymor’s Titus 112
Pascale Aebischer

7 Globalization: Figuring the Global/Historical in Filmic Shakespearean Tragedy 133
Mark Thornton Burnett

8 Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa Reading Shakespeare 155
Anthony Dawson

9 Popular Culture: Will of the People: Recent Shakespeare Film Parody and the Politics of Popularization 176
Douglas Lanier

10 Television Studies: Brushing Up Shakespeare: Relevance and Televisual Form 197
Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio

11 Remediation: Hamlet among the Pixelvisionaries: Video Art, Authenticity, and “Wisdom” in Almereyda’s
Hamlet 216
Peter S. Donaldson

Afterword: Unending Revels: Visual Pleasure and Compulsory Shakespeare 238
Kathleen McLuskie

Select Bibliography 250

Index 253