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Film adaptations of Shakespeares plays are increasingly popular and now figureprominently in the study of his work and its reception. This Companion is alively collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted fromand inspired by Shakespeares plays. Chapters have been revised and updatedfrom the first edition to include the most recent films and scholarship. Aninternational team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from avariety of perspectives as works of art in their own right as products of theinternational movie industry and as the work of particular directors fromLaurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh.They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeares womenand the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema rather thantelevision with strong coverage of Hamlet Richard III Macbeth King Lear andRomeo and Juliet. «
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