Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle

Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona

The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-04-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780333776643

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286795

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 244