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Screen Adaptations Shakespeare’s King Lear: The Relationship between Text and Film

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Leaves
225
Series
Screen Adaptations
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This close study of film adaptations of King Lear looks at several different versions (mainstream, art-house and cinematic ‘offshoots’) and discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text.
There are many references to the literary text and screenplays and the book also features quotations from directors and critics. There is plenty of discursive material here to support student work on both film and literature courses.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Timeline: cinematic adaptations of King Lear
Part One: Literary contexts
‘The wheel is come full circle’: origins and new directions
Recycled narratives
‘This great stage of fools’: King Learin performance
Dominant readings of King Lear: a tale of redemption or fall?
The adaptation debate
Part Two: Production contexts
From play text to silver screen
Screen Lears: an overview
The changing face of King Lear
New ways of reading screen Lears
Part Three: Readings of key versions
From the canon to Hollywood
East meets West: King Learand the canon
King Learand genre cinema
King Leargoes art house: acts of reconstruction
Part Four: The afterlife . . .
The afterlife of King Lear: recent developments in the visual medium
Adaptation: the debate goes on
Select bibliography
Select filmography
Index
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