Fully updated and revised, this offers a comprehensive coverage of the issues and development of Shakespearean films Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This updated Companion is a lively collection of critical and historical essays by an international team of leading scholars on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. List of contributors ix Preface xi A note on references xii Introduction: Shakespeare, films and the marketplace 1(14) Russell Jackson PART I ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS From play-script to screenplay 15(20) Russell Jackson Video and its paradoxes 35(12) Michele Willems Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history: the case of Richard III 47(25) Barbara Freedman Shakespeare and movie genre: the case of Hamlet 72(15) Harry Keyishian PART II GENRES AND PLAYS The comedies on film 87(15) Michael Hattaway Filming Shakespeare's history: three films of Richard III 102(18) H. R. Coursen Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film 120(21) J. Lawrence Guntner The tragedies of love on film 141(26) Patricia Tatspaugh PART III DIRECTORS The Shakespeare films of Laurence Olivier 167(20) Anthony Davies Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare 187(16) Pamela Mason Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear 203(13) Mark Sokolyansky Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare 216(10) Deborah Cartmell Flamboyant realist: Kenneth Branagh 226(19) Samuel Crowl PART IV CRITICAL ISSUES Looking at Shakespeare's women on film 245(22) Carol Chillington Rutter National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films 267(13) Neil Taylor Shakespeare the illusionist: filming the supernatural 280(23) Neil Forsyth Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots 303(21) Tony Howard Further reading 324(4) Filmography 328(8) Index 336