Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Relationship Between Text and Film

by Samuel Crowl

Book Overview

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet by Laurence Olivier (1948) and Kenneth Branagh (1996). The films' socio-political contexts are explored, and the importance of their screenplay, film...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408129558
• ISBN13: 9781408129555
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"