Filming Shakespeare's plays : the adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa / Anthony Davies.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991. Edition: Reprinted editionDescription: xiii, 219 pages : illustrations, 1 plan ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521335086
- 9780521399135
- 791.4375 DAV 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Baccah | 791.4375 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000048032 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. Central chapters focus on Welles' Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight; Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III; Brook's King Lear; and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies then discusses the dramatic problems the sources for these films pose for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. The book concludes by exploring the demands that distinguish the work of a Shakespearean stage actor from his counterpart's in film.
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