Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V

כריכה קדמית
University of Delaware Press, 1991 - 211 עמודים
This book applies the videocassette to the study of Shakespeare on television and film. The result is that the films become texts, and Shakespeare in performance can be examined with the scholarly care that has been reserved for printed books.

מתוך הספר

תוכן

Introduction
11
Difficulties of Shakespearean Film Criticism
14
Central Interpretation
18
The BBC Shakespeare Series
22
The BBC Richard II
29
The Critics Giles and History
39
History as Subtext
45
Bolingbroke and York
49
Other Films in the BBC Henriad and Henry V
91
Hal into Henry as Central Interpretation
92
Laurence Oliviers Henry V
100
Expectational Texts and Oliviers Script
110
Oliviers Central Interpretation
118
Orson Welles and Chimes at Midnight
130
The Central Interpretation
134
Conclusion Reevaluating Screened Shakespeare
156

Giles Jacobi and Richard II
53
The BBC First and Second Henry IV
64
Jon Finch as Henry IV
70
Anthony Quayles Falstaff
74
David Gwillims Prince Hal
82
The BBC Henry V
87
Revising Expectational Texts
158
Notes
164
Works Cited
189
Filmography
199
Index
205
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קטעים בולטים

עמוד 147 - If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work; / But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come
עמוד 59 - O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye / Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons, / From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame, / Deposing thee before thou wert possessed
עמוד 142 - I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he; but we rose both at an instant and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock!
עמוד 84 - What trick, what device, what starting hole canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?
עמוד 91 - Not today, O Lord, O, not today, think not upon the fault / My father made in compassing the crown!
עמוד 16 - Nym summarizes the complexity of the problem as Falstaff lies dying: 'The King is a good King. But it must be as it may.'
עמוד 72 - to save the divine life from the degeneracy of old age; but, since he had to be killed at any rate, people may have thought that they might as well seize the opportunity to lay upon him
עמוד 118 - Well, bawd I'll turn, / And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand. / To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.
עמוד 92 - some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery.
עמוד 90 - This is a stem / Of that victorious stock; and let us fear / The native mightiness and fate of him

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