Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare

Download or read book Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare written by Alexa Alice Joubin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. Shakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms onstage and onscreen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring together an international group of scholars to explore Shakespearean appropriations in unexpected contexts in lesser-known films and television shows in India, Brazil, Russia, France, Australia, South Africa, East-Central Europe and Italy, with reference to some filmed stage works.