Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire: Adaptation and Other Futures of Shakespeare's Language

by S. Ryle

Overview

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137332059
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/08/2013
Edition description:	2014
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Simon Ryle is Assistant Professor in early modern literature, film, and critical theory at the University of Split, Croatia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vi

Preface and Acknowledgements viii

Introduction: Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire 2

1 Something from Nothing: King Lear and Film Space 36

2 Body Space: The Sublime Cleopatra 85

3 Ghost Time: Unfolding Hamlet 129

4 Re-nascences: The Tempest and New Media 174

Epilogue: Futures of Shakespeare 212

Notes 220

Bibliography 226

Index 245

Editorial Reviews

"Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire is sophisticated, thought-provoking, and intellectually stimulating. Simon Ryle's relation of the Shakespearean text to later films is outstanding; he provides many compelling, unique readings of Shakespeare's language in specific adaptations and in the history of cinema itself. The book is an important addition to existing Shakespeare and film criticism that will appeal to Shakespearean scholars, teachers, and students." Lisa Starks-Estes, University of South Florida, USA

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