Table of Contents

List of illustrations; 1. Shakespeare and the media of film, radio and television: a retrospect Anthony Davies; 2. Shakespeare on the screen: a selective filmography Graham Holderness and Christopher McCullough; 3. Chimes at Midnight from stage to screen: the art of adaption Robert Hapgood; 4. Orson Welles' Othello: a study of time in Shakespeare's tragedy Lorne M. Buchman; 5. Macbeth on film: politics E. Pearlman; 6. Representing King Lear on screen: from metatheatre to 'meta-cinema' Kenneth S. Rothwell; 7. Verbal-visual, verbal-pictorial or textual-televisual? Reflections on the BBC Shakespeare series Michèle Willems; 8. Two types of television Shakespeare Neil Taylor; 9. Shakespeare on radio Stuart Evans; 10. The dismemberment of Orpheus: mythic elements in Shakespeare's romances David Armitage; 11. Remembering Hamlet: or, how it feels to go like a crab backwards Edward Pechter; 12. 'Then murder's out of tune': the music and structure of Othello Rosalind King; 13. The Aeneid in The Tempest Robert Wiltenburg; 14. The living dramatist and Shakespeare: a study of Shakespeare's influence on Wole Soyinka James Gibbs; 15. Shakespeare at Stratford, Ontario: the John Hirsch years Roger Warren; 16. Shakespeare performances in London and Stratford-upon-Avon 1984–5 Nicholas Shrimpton; 17. The year's contributions to Shakespearian study Brian Gibbons, Richard Dutton and MacDonald P. Jackson; Index.

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