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

by Anthony Davies

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521399130
• ISBN13: 9780521399135
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"