Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa Book

While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for the theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of...Read More

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  • Book Description

    An exploration of the dramatic problems posed in the filming of Welles' Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight; Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III; Brook's King Lear; and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood.

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    Davies begins his study with a comparison of theatrical and cinematic space showing that the dramatic resources of cinema are essentially spatial. Central chapters focus on Welles' Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight; Olivier's Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III; Brook's King Lear; and Kurosawa's Throne of Blood. Davies then discusses the dramatic problems the sources for these films pose for the film maker and he examines how these films influenced later theatrical stagings. The book concludes by exploring the demands that distinguish the work of a Shakespearean stage actor from his counterpart's in film.

  • 0521399130
  • 9780521399135
  • Anthony Davies
  • 29 June 1990
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 236
  • New Ed
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