A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

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"With this collection, Henderson...and her fellow contributorsrocket Shakespearian studies into the 21st Century...the collectionoffers a variety of ways to study Shakespearian screen adaptations,thus providing an exciting new avenue of critical study for thoselooking to break free of the more staid critical analysis of old.Highly recommended" Choice "This superb collection of essays takes the study ofShakespeare on film to a whole new level, telling us where thediscipline has reached and where we can go from here. From problemsof film-acting and gender to cross-culturalism and pixelvision, thebook covers an enormous range of approaches as it considers thefull gamut of Shakespeare films (old and new; good, bad andindifferent). It may be a 'Concise Companion' but thereis nothing skimped here; instead, the collection is as rich andprovocative as one could imagine and as exhilarating as the filmsthemselves." Peter Holland, University of NotreDame "The essays are superbly interwoven with the overallstructure of the volume. The work presented in this volume isreally impressive. It covers every necessary aspect needed tounderstand the discipline and completes what has been published sofar opening new avenues for research. All that rethinking done inthe past years has been appropriately summarized and expanded inthis magnificent volume. It presents enough material to "keepmaking sense of our subject, and await the next viewing".What more could one ask for? The careful reading of the essaysincluded in this companion will elicit from us the wish to"continue to discern somethingmeaningful"." Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso, University of Vigo, Sederi "A serious and penetrating series of articles that supplydimensions we may not have been aware of and that enhance ourunderstanding of the different Shakespeares we see on the screen... All libraries connected with cultural and media studiesshould have this book on their shelves." Reference Reviews