Shakespeare in the Cinema

Stephen M. Buhler is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Shakespeare Test 2. Ocular Proof: Three Versions of Othello 3. Documentary Shakespeare 4. Shakespeare and the Screen Idol 5. Shakespeare the Filmmaker 6. The Revenge of the Actor-Manager 7. Transgressive, in Theory 8. Gaining in Translation 9. Conclusion: The Next Century of Shakespeare Works Cited Index of Shakespearean Plays and Films General Index

"[This] readable and informative book … revels in how celluloid and electronics have challenged traditional ways of looking at Shakespeare." — Cineaste"Stylishly written … readers experience the films as situated within a historical and cultural matrix that extends beyond 'Shakespeare-speak' to reveal their own history." — SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900"…of value to anyone interested in how Shakespeare has been cinematically imagined, co-opted, and consumed as art and as popular culture in the last century." — Sixteenth Century Journal"…discusses the teams that collaborate to modify and make Shakespeare entertaining for film audiences … [Buhler] offers a wide scope and a lot of sense." — Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance"Buhler's book is comprehensive. He covers just about every Shakespeare film in existence, including some rare silent ones and some in other languages. This is a useful and well-written survey of a large field." — Lois Potter, University of Delaware"I like its thorough coverage of many films and its organization of the whole, which avoids a rigid chronology and instead shows the various strategies filmmakers have employed to create Shakespeare films. Instead of treating silent films in isolation, Buhler weaves them into his discussion of other films, exposing relations among films of the whole century." — Bernice W. Kliman, coeditor of The Three-Text Hamlet: Parallel Texts of the First and Second Quartos and First Folio