Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear - Hardcover

Edited By Victoria Bladen , Sarah Hatchuel , Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108426921 ISBN 13: 9781108426923

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

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About the Authors

Victoria Bladen is Sessional Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland where she has twice received a Faculty award for teaching excellence. She has published four Shakespearean text guides: Measure for Measure (2015), Henry IV Part 1 (2012), Julius Caesar (2011) and Romeo and Juliet (2010). She co-edited Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (2014) and Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth (2013) as well as Shakespeare and the Supernatural (forthcoming). She has also published articles in several volumes of the Shakespeare on Screen series including Shakespeare on Screen: 'The Tempest' and Late Romances (Cambridge, 2017) and is on the editorial board for the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia project in France.

Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier and President of the Société Française Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays: Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake (2011); Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen (2004); A Companion to the Shakespearean Films of Kenneth Branagh (2000) and on television series: Lost: Fiction vitale (2013); Rêves et séries américaines: la fabrique d'autres mondes (2016). She is general co-editor of the Shakespeare on Screen series and of the online journal TV/Series.

Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, Vice President of the Société Française Shakespeare and Director of the 'Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières' (IRCL, UMR 5186 CNRS). She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director, with Patricia Dorval, of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database. She has published The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and is the author of Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (2016). She is co-editor, with Sarah Hatchuel, of the Shakespeare on Screen series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108426921
• ISBN 13: 9781108426923
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 278