Screen Adaptations Shakespeare’s the Tempest: The Relationship Between Text and Film

✍ Scribed by Lisa Hopkins

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Series: Screen Adaptations
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.
Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow’s 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books, the book 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 numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and others linked with the chosen film and text.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
A note on texts
Filmography and credits for key films
Part One: Literary contexts
The play in its time
The play today
Adaptations of The Tempest– a brief overview
Part Two: From text to screen
Introduction – setting the scene
Forbidden Planet(dir. Fred Wilcox, 1956)
The Tempest(dir. Derek Jarman, 1979)
Prospero’s Books (dir. Peter Greenaway, 1991)
Conclusion
Part Three: Critical responses and the afterlife of text and film
Introduction
Jarman’s The Tempest
Prospero’s Books
Forbidden Planet
Afterlife
Works cited
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
J
K
L
M
O
P
R
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T
V
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