Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear by Yvonne Griggs

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.

[The Screen Adaptations series] offers some meaty ideas to film studies students-- Susan Elkin * The Stage *

Dr. Yvonne Griggs is Lecturer in English at De Monfort University.

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ISBN 13	9781408105924
ISBN 10	1408105926
Title	Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's King Lear
Author	Yvonne Griggs
Series	Screen Adaptations
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2009-10-30
Number of pages	224
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