Culture et société

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Canon on Screen

"This class is dedicated to the critical analysis of Shakespeare's plays adapted on screen in the 20th and 21st centuries. After a panoramic approach of key films of the period (such as  Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1935), key film-makers(like Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, John Gielguld, Peter Hall, Peter Brook, Kenneth Branagh among others) and a perusal of some theoretical tools to analyse film adaptation (see advised bibliography), the students will be asked to present a film of their choice and discuss its key features to question the purpose of adaptation." 

Bibliography : Selected Biography:

Judith R. Buchanan, Shakespeare on Film (2005)

Thomas Cartelli, Reenacting Shakespeare in the Shakespeare Aftermath: The Intermedial Turn and Turn to Embodiment. Palgrave Macmillan (2019)

1. R. Coursen, Shakespeare Translated: Derivatives On Film And Tv (2005)

Anthony Davies and Stanley Wells, Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television (1994)

Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, William Shakespeare's Macbeth on Film. From Interpretation to Revision (2015)

Kristie Desmet,  Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare. Palgrave Macmillan (2017)

Diana E. Henderson, A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, Wiley-Blackwell (2005)

Maurice Hindle, Shakespeare on Film, Palgrave (2015)

—, Studying Shakespeare on Film (2007)

Kathy M. Howlett, Framing Shakespeare on Film (2000) 

Linda Hutcheon,  A Theory of Adaptation, New York, Routledge (2006)

Russell Jackson, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare in Film, Cambridge University Press, (2007 New Edition)

Carolyn Jess–Cooke, Shakespeare on Film Made Of (2007)

Jack J. Jorgens, Shakespeare on Film (1991)

Margaret Jane Kidnie, Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation (2009)

Marcus Pitcaithly, Shakespeare on Film: An Encyclopaedia (2011)

Jonathan Pope, H. Shakespeare s Fans: Adapting the Bard in the Age of Media Fandom. Springer Nature Switzerland AG (2020)

Kenneth S. Rothwell, A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television (2004)

Eddie Sammons, Shakespeare: A Hundred Years on Film (2000)

Julie Sanders, Adaptation and Appropriation, Routledge, New Critical Series, 2017 (2005)

Robert Shaughnessy, Shakespeare on Film: Contemporary Critical Essays (1998)

Tanja Weiss, Shakespeare on the Screen: Kenneth Branagh's Adaptations of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet (2000)