Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare / by Jones, Mike

Subjects: “…Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Much ado about nothing Examinations Study guides.…”
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The Arden Shakespeare third series complete works / by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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Shakespeare's prose / by Crane, Milton, 1917-

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Shakespeare on film / by Hindle, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE OF FILM -- Filming and Staging Shakespeare: Some Contrasts -- The Audience: Individual and Collective Experience -- Imagery: Verbal and Visual -- Bringing It All Together -- THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON FILM 1899-2014 -- Silent Shakespeare -- The Thirties: Hollywood Shakespeare -- The Forties: Olivier and Welles -- The Fifties: Post-war Diversity -- The Sixties and Seventies: Cultural Revolution, Filmic Innovation -- The Nineties: Branagh's Renaissance and the Shakespeare on Film Revival -- Shakespeare on Film in the 21st Century -- COMMUNICATING SHAKESPEARE ON FILM: MODES, STYLES, GENRES -- The Theatrical Mode -- The Realistic Mode -- The Filmic Mode -- The Periodizing Mode -- Film Genre: Conventions and Codes -- Genre Conventions and the Shakespeare Film Adaptation -- A Cross-cultural Shakespeare Adaptation: Kurosawa's Kumonosu-Jo -- CRITICAL ESSAYS -- COMEDIES -- Introductory Note -- Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993) -- Adrian Noble's A Midsummer Night's Dream (UK, 1996) -- Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999) -- HISTORIES -- Introductory Note -- Laurence Olivier's Henry V (UK, 1994) -- Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (UK, 1989) -- Laurence Olivier's Richard III (UK, 1955) -- Richard Loncraine's Richard III (UK, 1995) -- TRAGEDIES -- Introductory -- Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (UK/Italy, 1968) -- Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (USA, 1996) -- Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (UK, 1948) -- Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (UK, 1996) -- Michael Almereyda's Hamlet (USA, 2000) -- Orson Welles's Macbeth (USA, 1948) -- Roman Polanski's Macbeth (UK, 1971) -- SHAKESPEARE ON THE SMALL SCREEN -- Film, TV and Small Screen Shakespeare -- The BBC-TV Series: Shooting the Complete Canon -- The Stage-Screen Hybrid: Shakespeare on TV/DVD/Blu-ray -- Appendix: Filming Shakespeare for the Small Screen -- An Interview with John Wyver, Illuminations filmmaker and producer -- References -- Suggested Further Reading -- Select Filmography -- Some Useful Websites -- Glossary of Terms.…”

Shakspere and his predecessors / by Boas, Frederick S. 1862-1957

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- The Mediadval drama -- The early Renaissance drama -- The rise of the theatres -- Marlowe's dramatic reform -- Kyd, Lyly, and Peele -- Robert Greene -- Shakespeare at Stratford -- Shakespeare in London -- The Sonnets -- Shakespeare's dramatic apprenticeship -- Titus Andronicus -- Henry VI -- Richard III -- Shakespeare's poems -- The early period of comedy -- Venus and Adonis -- Lucrece -- Love's Labour's Lost -- The Comedy of Errors -- The Taming of the Shrew -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Shakespeare Italianate -- Romeo and Juliet -- The Merchant of Venice -- The chief group of chronicle-history plays -- King John -- Richard II -- Henry IV -- Henry V -- The golden prime of comedy -- The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Much Ado about Nothing -- Twelfth Night -- As You Like It -- The problem plays -- All's Well that Ends Well -- Measure for Measure -- Troilus and Cressida -- Hamlet -- The climax of tragedy -- Macbeth -- Othello -- King Lear -- The Plutarch series of plays -- Julius Caeser -- Antony and Cleopatra -- Coriolanus -- Timon of Athens -- The dramatic romances -- Cymbeline -- The Winter's Tale -- The Tempest -- Appendices -- Index.…”

Emotional excess on the Shakespearean stage : passion's slaves / by Escolme, Bridget, 1964-

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