Welles, Kurosawa, Kozintsev, Zeffirelli: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVII

by Mark Thornton Burnett, Courtney Lehmann, Marguerite Rippy, Ramona Wray

Overview

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Grigori Kozintsev and Franco Zeffirelli to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472539472
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Series:	Great Shakespeareans
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	304 KB

About the Author

Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, UK, and Director of the Kenneth Branagh Archive. His books include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (2000) and Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006).
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His books include Shakespeare and World Cinema (2013), 'Hamlet' and World Cinema (2019), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (2007; 2nd ed. 2012). He is series editor of the Arden Shakespeare series Shakespeare and Adaptation.
Courtney Lehmann is the Tully Knoles Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English and Film Studies and the Director of the Humanities Scholars Program at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Notable works include: Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern (2002); Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema (2002); The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory (2002); Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (2010); Great Shakespeareans, Volume XVII (2013) and a new edition of King John and Henry VIII (2015).
Marguerite Rippy is Professor of English at Marymount University, USA. She is the author of Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects and of numerous essays on Orson Welles, adaptations of Shakespeare, gender and race theory, and performances of female sexuality.
Ramona Wray is Lecturer in English at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. Her publications include Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle (2000), Screening Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (2006).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface (Peter Holland and Adrian Poole)
Acknowledgements
A Note on References
Notes on Contributors
Introduction (Mark Thornton Burnett)
1. Orson Welles (Marguerite H. Rippy)
2. Akira Kurosawa (Mark Thornton Burnett)
3, Grigori Kozintsev (Courtney Lehmann)
4. Franco Zeffirelli (Ramona Wray)
Notes
Select Bibliography