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Shakespeare

Film

General

Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film.
Edited by Russell Jackson.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Studying Shakespeare on Film
By Rebekah Owens.
Liverpool: Auteur, 2021.
Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film.
By Eddie Sammons.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004.
This is the most important guide on the subject available, including not only films of Shakespeare's plays, but also filmed stage performances and films based on or inspired by his works. The films are categorized by the plays they depict.

Subtopics

Shakespeare, Bakhtin, and Film: A Dialogic Lens.
By Keith Harrison.
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017.
Cinematic Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre.
Edited by Alexa Alice Joubin and Victoria Bladen.
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film.
By Madhavi Menon.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008.
Queering the Shakespeare Film: Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship, and Male Homoeroticism.
By Anthony Guy Patricia.
London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017.
Shakespeare and British World War Two Film
By Garrett A. Sullivan.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film.
Publication Date: 2020-12-16

By Kinga Földváry.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning.
By Eric S. Mallin.
Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.

Specific Plays

Shakespeare’s King Lear: The Relationship between Text and Film.
By Yvonne Griggs.
London: Methuen Drama, 2020.
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: The Relationship Between Text and Film.
By Courtney Lehmann.
London: Methuen Drama, 2020.
Shakespeare’s the Tempest: The Relationship between Text and Film.
By Lisa Hopkins.
London: Methuen Drama, 2020.
Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film.
By Samuel Crowl.
New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2014.

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Subjects: English Literature, Literature

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