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Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood : the marketing of filmed Shakespeare adaptations from 1989 into the new millennium

Filmed Shakespeare criticism has largely centred on aesthetic critiques of filmic devices, or on comparisons between the film and the source text. Employing a new angle, this book explores the reasons why contemporary filmed Shakespeare prompts cultural anxiety about high-culture adaptation
Print Book, English, 2005
University of Hertfordshire Press, Hatfield, 2005
Film adaptations
224 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
9781902806518, 1902806514
1158453809