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Filming Shakespeare's Plays : The Adaptions of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
Filming Shakespeare's Plays The Adaptions of Laurence Olivier Orson Welles Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
Author: Anthony Davies
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 dra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521399135
ISBN-10: 0521399130
Publication Date: 6/29/1990
Pages: 233
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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