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Apocalyptic Shakespeare

by Melissa Croteau
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

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Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers

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  • ISBN: 9780786453511
  • Release date: January 10, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9780786453511
  • Release date: January 10, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9780786453511
  • File size: 1379 KB
  • Release date: January 10, 2014

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Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Performing Arts Nonfiction

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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

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Biography & Autobiography Literary Criticism Performing Arts Nonfiction