Visual Shakespeare - Essays in Film and Television

The fact that film and television versions of Shakespeare are now accepted as a standard element of Shakespeare studies is due in no small part to the work collected in this volume

This volume brings together for the first time a definitive collection of Graham Holderness's writings on Shakespeare in film and television

Published in books and journals between 1984 and 1998, these celebrated essays constitute a unique resource for the study of Shakespeare in the media

The book consists of three sections: Shakespeare in Television, Shakespeare in Film and Case Studies (Henry V, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet) plus a specially written Preface and a Bibliography of work in this particular field