
Chimes at Midnight
Orson Welles, Director
Bridget Gellert Lyons(Editor)
Rutgers University Press
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
350 pages
978-0-8135-1339-3 (ISBN)
Description
Among the films inspired by Orson Welles's lifelong involvement with Shakespeare, the greatest is Chimes at Midnight (1966). It is a masterly conflation of the Shakespearean history plays that feature Falstaff, the great comic figure played by Welles himself in the film. For Welles, the character was also potentially tragic: the doomed friendship between Falstaff and Prince Hal becomes an image of the end of an age. To this epic subject Welles brings the innovative film techniques that made him famous in Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai,"and Touch of Evil.
This volume offers a complete continuity script of Chimes at Midnight, including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakesperian sources, thus making the volume an invaluable guide to Welles as an adaptor and creator of texts. The first complete transcription of the continuity script of Chimes is accompanied by the editor's critical introduction on Welles's transformation of Shakespeare; a special interview with Keith Baxter, one of the film's principal actors, which discusses its production history; reviews and articles; and a biographical sketch of Welles, a filmography, and a bibliography.
This volume offers a complete continuity script of Chimes at Midnight, including its famous battle sequence. Each shot is described in detail and is keyed to the original Shakesperian sources, thus making the volume an invaluable guide to Welles as an adaptor and creator of texts. The first complete transcription of the continuity script of Chimes is accompanied by the editor's critical introduction on Welles's transformation of Shakespeare; a special interview with Keith Baxter, one of the film's principal actors, which discusses its production history; reviews and articles; and a biographical sketch of Welles, a filmography, and a bibliography.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-1339-3 (9780813513393)
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Person
BRIDGET GELLERT LYONS is professor emerita of English at Rutgers University and the author of Voices of Melancholy.
Content
Introduction
Chimes at Midnight
Interviews
Reviews and Commentaries
Filmography and Bibliography
Chimes at Midnight
Interviews
Reviews and Commentaries
Filmography and Bibliography