Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear
The third volume in the re-launched series Shakespeare on Screen is devoted to film versions and adaptations of King Lear. Bringing together an international group of scholars, the chapters provide new insights and perspectives on what constitutes 'Learness' in a range of films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. Taking 'screen' in its broader sense, it also covers digital material such as video archives, internet movies and YouTube videos. The volume features an invaluable film-bibliography and accompanying online resources include additional essays and an expanded version of the film-bibliography.
- An in-depth study of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen, showing the enduring relevance of the play and the themes it tackles
- Explores films and TV productions from the US and UK and explores translations, free retellings and appropriations from Japan, Australia, France, Poland and Russia
- Emphasizes the new media, transmedia and constant evolution of technologies in the production, reception and dissemination of 'Shakespeare on film'
Reviews & endorsements
'… this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
'The empathy that pervades the latest addition to the excellent Shakespeare on Screen series is at times overwhelming … this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, The Shakespeare Newsletter
'The collection contains more richly suggestive essays than I have space to mention; it will be indispensable to students of King Lear. The editors' calculated broad approach creates a collection that is more than the sum of its parts, and which is animated by a sense of conscience and compassion.' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare Bulletin
Product details
August 2021Paperback
9781108446891
276 pages
228 × 151 × 16 mm
0.42kg
13 b/w illus.
Available
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
- Part I. Surviving Lear: Revisiting the Canon:
- 2. Lear's Fool on film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa Samuel Crowl
- 3. Wicked humans and weeping Buddhas: (post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa's Ran Melissa Croteau
- Part II. Lear en abyme: Metatheater and the Screen:
- 4. Filming metatheater: the 'Dover cliff' scene on screen Sarah Hatchuel
- 5. New ways of looking at Lear: changing relationships between theatre, screen and audience in live broadcasts of King Lear (2011–2016) Rachael Nicholas
- 6. Re-shaping old course in a country new: producing nation, culture and King Lear in Slings and Arrows Lois Leveen
- Part III. The Genres of Lear:
- 7. Negotiating authorship, genre and race in King of Texas (2002) Pierre Kapitaniak
- 8. Romancing King Lear: Hobson's Choice, Life Goes On and beyond Diana E. Henderson
- 9. 'Easy Lear': Harry and Tonto and the American road movie Douglas M. Lanier
- Part IV. Lear on the Loose: Migrations and Appropriations of Lear:
- 10. Relocating Jewish culture in The Yiddish King Lear (1934) Jacek Fabiszak
- 11. The Trump effect: exceptionalism, global capitalism and the war on women in early twenty-first century films of King Lear Courtney Lehmann
- 12. Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm Victoria Bladen
- 13. Between political drama and soap opera: appropriations of King Lear in US television series Boss and Empire Sylvaine Bataille and Anaïs Pauchet
- 14. Afterword: Godard's King Lear Peter Holland
- 15. King Lear on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón DÃaz Fernández.