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Shakespeare on Screen: An Annotated Checklist (PDF)

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• Midsummer Night's Dream
• Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Henry V
• Taming of the Shrew
• Romeo and Juliet
• Hamlet
• Richard III
• Titus Andronicus
• King Lear
• The Tempest

Primary Films

Reinhardt, Max and William Dieterle. (1935): VHS, laserdisc.

Hall, Peter. (1968): VHS.

Hoffman, Michael. (1999): VHS, DVD.

Related Films

Weir, Peter. Dead Poets' Society. (1989)

Noble, Adrian. Midsummer Night's Dream. (1996)

Edzard, Christine. Children's Midsummer Night's Dream. (2001)

Criticism

Donaldson, Peter S. "Two of Both Kinds: Marriage and Modernism in Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream. " in Reel Shakespeare. Edited by Courtney Lehmann and Lisa Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2002. ISBN: 9780838639399.

Frye, Northrop. "The Argument of Comedy." In English Institute Essays. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1949, pp. 58-73; repr. in Shakespeare: Modern Essays in Criticism. Edited by Edward Dean. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969 [1957], pp. 80-89. ISBN: 9780195006889.

Habicht, Werner. "Shakespeare and the German Imagination." In Shakespeare: World Views. Edited by Heather Kerr, Robin Eaden, and Madge Mitton. Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, 1996, pp. 87-101. ISBN: 9780874135657.

Harris, Diana. "The Diva and the Donkey: Hoffman's Use of Opera in A Midsummer Night's Dream" MS.

Jackson, Russell. "A Shooting Script for the Reinhardt-Dieterle Dream: the War with the Amazons, Bottom's Wife, and other Missing 'Scenes.'" Shakespeare Bulletin 16/4 (Fall, 1998): 19-41.

McGuire, Philip C. "Hippolyta's Silence and the Poet's Pen," In Speechless Dialect. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780520053731.

Montrose, Louis. "A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fatasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form." In "Rewriting the Renaissance" The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Margaret Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan and Nancy Vickers. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 65-87. ISBN: 9780226243146.

Willson, Robert. "'Ill met by moonlight': Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Musical Screwball Comedy." Journal of Popular Film 5 (1976): 185-97.

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Primary Films

Olivier, Laurence. Henry V. (1944): VHS, laserdisc, DVD.

Branagh, Kenneth. Henry V. (1989): VHS, laserdisc, DVD.

Van Sant, Gus. My Own Private Idaho. (1991): VHS, laserdisc.

Related Films

Giles, David. Henry IV, Pt. 1; Henry IV, Pt. 2; Henry V. [The Shakespeare plays, BBC TV]. (1979)

Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. (1966). VHS

Criticism

Andrew, Dudley. Film in the Aura of Art. "Realism, Rheotric and the Painting of History in Henry V." Chapter 8. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780691014319.

Crowl, Samuel. "The Long Goodbye, Welles and Falstaff." Shakespeare Quarterly. 31 (1980): 369-80; repr. in Crowl, Samuel. Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992, pp. 35-50. ISBN: 9780821410349.

Donaldson, Peter. "Claiming from the Female: Gender and Representation in Laurence Olivier's Henry V." In Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors. Boston, MA: Unwin and Hyman, 1990, pp. 1-30. ISBN: 9780044452300.

Greenblatt, Stephen J. "Invisible Bullets." In Shakespearean Negotiations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989, ch. 2, pp. 21-65. ISBN: 9780520061606.

Jackson, Russell. "Two Films of Henry V: Frames and Stories." In Collection Astraea, No.4:The Show Within: Dramatic and Other Insets. English Renaissance Drama (1550-1642) (Proceedings of the International Conference held in Montpelier, 22-25 Novembre [sic], 1990. Edited by Francois Laroque. Montpelier, Canada: Universite Paul-Valery-Montpelier III: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Elisabethaines, 1991?, pp. 181-197.

Lyons, Bridget Gellert, ed. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. ISBN: 9780813513393.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 84-94. ISBN: 9780521594042.

Wiseman, Susan. "The Family Tree Motel: Subliming Shakespeare in My Own Prvate Idaho" In Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the plays on Film, TV and Video. Edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 225-239. ISBN: 9780415165853.

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Primary Films

Zeffirelli, Franco. Taming of the Shrew. (1967): VHS, laserdisc, DVD.

Junger, Gil. 10 Things I Hate About You. (1999): VHS, DVD.

Related Films

Fuller, Sam. Taming of the Shrew. (1929)

Heckerling, Amy. Clueless. (1999)

Criticism

Richard, Burt. "Afterword: Te(e)n Things I Hate about Girlene Shakesploitation Flicks in the Late 1990s, or Not-So-Fast Times at Shakespeare High." In Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Edited by Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002, pp. 205-232. ISBN: 9780838639108.

Hodgdon, Barbara. "Katherina Bound; or, Play(K)ating the Strictures of Everyday Life." In Shakespeare on Film: Contmeporary Critical Essays. Edited by Robert Shaughnessy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998, pp. 156-172. ISBN: 9780312214487.

Boose, Lynda. "Scolding Brides and Bridling Scolds: Taming the Woman's Unruly member." Shakespeare Quarterly 42.2 (Summer, 1991): 179-213.

Henderson, Diana E. "A Shrew for the Times." in Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the plays on Film, TV and Video. Edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 148-168. ISBN: 9780415165853.

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Primary Films

Zeffirelli, Franco. Romeo and Juliet. (1968)

Luhrmann, Baz. William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. (1996)

Madden, John. Shakespeare in Love. (1998)

Related Films

Cukor, George. Romeo and Juliet. (1936)

Castellani, Renato. Romeo and Juliet. (1954)

Wise, Robert. West Side Story. (1961)

Criticism

Dalsimer, Katherine. Female Adolescence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780300034592.

Donaldson, Peter. "'Let Lips do what hands do': Male Bonding, Eros and Loss in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet." In Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors. Boston, MA: Unwin and Hyman, 1990, pp. 145-188. ISBN: 9780044452300.

Donaldson, Peter. “’In Fair Verona:’ Media, Spectacle and Performance in Romeo + Juliet.” In Shakespeare after Mass Media. Edited by Richard Burt. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002, 59-82. ISBN: 9780312294540.

Hodgdon, Barbara. "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Everything's Nice in America?" Shakespeare Survey 52 (1999): 88-98.

Lehmann, Courtney. "Shakespeare in Love: Romancing the Author, Mastering the Body." In Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002, pp. 125-148. ISBN: 9780838639108.

Snow, Edward. "Language and Sexual Difference in Romeo and Juliet." In Shakespeare's 'Rough Magic': Essays in Honor of C.L. Barbe. Edited by Peter Erickson and Coppelia Kahn. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985, pp. 168-192.

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Primary Films

Olivier, Laurence. Hamlet. (1948)

Almereyda, Michael. Hamlet. (2000)

Related Films

Gade, Svend. Hamlet. (1920)

Gielgud, John. Hamlet. (1964) ["electronovision" version of 1964 stage production]

Kozintsev, Grigorii. Hamlet. (1964)

Richardson, Tony. Hamlet. (1969)

Lyth, Ragnar. Hamlet. (1982)

Zeffirelli, Franco. Hamlet. (1990)

Branagh, Kenneth. Hamlet. (1996)

Criticism

Adelman, Janet. "Hamlet and the Confrontation with the Maternal Body." Hamlet. Boston, MA: St. Martin's Press, 1993, pp. 241-82. ISBN: 9780312055448.

Barker, Francis. The Tremulous Private Body. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1995 [1984]. Ch. On Hamlet. ISBN: 9780472065523.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691058733.

Jones, Ernest. Hamlet and Oedipus. London, UK: Victor Gollacz, 1947. ASIN: B0007JPZI6.

Knight, G. Wilson. "The Embassy of Death." In The Wheel of Fire. New York, NY: Routledge, 1930, repr. 2001. ISBN: 9780415253956.

Lehmann, Courtney. "The Machine in the Ghost: Hamlet's Cinematographic Kingdom." In Shakespeare Remains. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, pp. 89-129. ISBN: 9780801487675.

Weimann, Robert. "Performance and Authority in Hamlet (1603)." In Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital. Edited by Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2000, pp. 52-63. ISBN: 9780312222710.

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Primary Films

Loncraine, Richard. Richard III. (1996)

Pacino, Al. Looking for Richard. (1996)

Related Films

Olivier, Laurence. Richard III. (1953)

Coursen, Herbert. "Filming Shakespeare's History: Three Films of Richard III," In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Edited by Russell Jackson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 97-115. ISBN: 9780521639750.

Donaldson, Peter. "Cinema and the Kingdom of Death: Loncraine's Richard III." MS (forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly).

Freedman, Barbara. “Critical Junctures in Shakespeare Film History; The Case of Richard III.” In The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Edited by Russell Jackson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 65-66. ISBN: 9780521639750.

Hodgdon, Barbara. “Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics.” Theatre Journal 50 (May, 1998).

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Primary Films

Taymor, Julie. Titus. (1999)

Related Films

Howell, Jane. Titus Andronicus. (1985)

Criticism

Burt, Richard. "Shakespeare and the Holocaust: Julie Taymor's Titus is Beautiful, or Shakesploi Meets (the) Camp." In Shakespeare after Mass Media. Edited by Richard Burt. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002,. pp. 295-330. ISBN: 9780312294540.

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Primary Films

Elliott, Michael. King Lear. (1984)

Godard, Jean-Luc. King Lear. (1987)

Related Films

Kozintsev, Grigorii. King Lear. (1970)

Brook, Peter. King Lear. (1971)

Kurosawa, Akira. Ran. (1985)

Criticism

Clayton, Thomas. "'Is this the promis'd end?' Revision in the Role of the King." In The Division of the Kingdoms. Shakespeares Two Versions of King Lear. Edited by Gary Taylor and Michael J. Warren. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 121-141. ISBN: 9780198129509.

Donaldson, Peter. "Disseminating Shakespeare: Paternity and text in Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear." In Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors. Boston, MA: Unwin and Hyman, 1990, pp. 189-225. ISBN: 9780044452300.

Shakespeare, William. "Preface." The Complete King Lear: 1608-1623. Berkeley, CA:University of California Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780520052697.

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Primary Films

Mazursky, Paul. Tempest. (1982)

Greenaway, Peter. Prospero's Books. (1991)

Related Films

Jarman, Derek. The Tempest. (1979)

Wilcox, Fred M. Forbidden Planet. (1956)

Criticism

Barker, Francis, and Peter Hume. "'Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish': The Discursive Con-Texts of The Tempest." In Alternative Shakespeares. Edited by John Drakakis. New York, NY: Methuen, 1985. ISBN: 041502528.

Brown, Paul. "'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism." In Political Shakespeare: new essays in Cultural materialism. Edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 48-71. ISBN: 9780801493256.

Bruster, Douglas. "The Postmodern Theater of Paul Mazursky's Tempest." In Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle. Edited by Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 26-39. ISBN: 9780312231484.

Donaldson, Peter. "Shakespeare in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and Electronic Magic in Prospero's Books." In Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the plays on Film, TV and Video. Edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 169-185. ISBN: 9780415165853.

Donaldson, Peter. "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books." Postmodern Culture 8.2 (Jan., 1998). Special Issue on Film.

Fuller, Mary. "Forgetting the Aeneid." American Literary History (Summer, 1992): 517-38.

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the 16th Century." In First images of America: The Impact of the New World in the Old. Edited by Fredi Chapelli. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 561-580. Repr. in Greenblatt, Stephen. Learning to Curse. London, UK: Routledge, 1976, pp. 16-39. ISBN: 9780520030107.

Lanier, Douglas. "Drowning the Book: Prospero's Books and the Textual Shakespeare." In Shakespeare, Theory and Performance. Edited by James C. Bulman. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995, pp.187-209. ISBN: 9780415116251.

Mannoni, Ottavo. Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonialism. Translated by Pamela Powesland. New York, NY: Praeger, 1964 [1950]. ASIN: B0007F2P0G.

Vaughan, Alden T., and Virginia Mason Brown. Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780521403054.