Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
183 pages
978-1-349-60222-3 (ISBN)
Description
Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself.
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Edition
2009 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-60222-3 (9781349602223)
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Relocating Shakespeare and Austen on Screen
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Content
Acknowledgements Introduction The West Coast: Clueless and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet The East Coast: Jane Austen in Manhattan and Hamlet, dir. Michael Almereyda Across the Pond: In the Bleak Midwinter and Bridget Jones's Diary Across the Ocean: Bride and Prejudice and Shakespeare Wallah Modernity: Shakespeare Retold, the ITV Jane Austen Season, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice and Becoming Jane Conclusion Works Cited Index