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Filming Shakespeare's Plays

Filming Shakespeare's Plays :The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa

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Format : Paperback / softback
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521399135
Publication Year : 1990
Language : English

While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema's dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to film representation.