ERIC Number: ED068941
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Publication Date: 1972
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Focus on Shakespearean Films.
Eckert, Charles W., Ed.
This is an anthology of reviews and critical pieces of the significant and available Shakespearean films made between 1935 and 1966. Included are three general essays on Shakespearean film by Ian Johnson, Henri Lemaitre, and Geoffrey Reeves. The specific films and their reviewers are: A Midsummer's Night Dream (1935) Allardyce Nicoll and Richard Watts; Henry V (1944) James Agee and Bosley Crowther; Hamlet (1948) Mary McCarty and Peter Alexander; Macbeth (1948) Claude Beylie; Othello (1951) Andre Bazin and Michael MacLiammoir; Julius Caesar (1953) P.M. Pasinetti; Romeo and Juliet (1954) P.A. Jorgensen, Roy Walker and Gavin Lambert; Othello (1955) Derek Prouse; Richard III (1955) Constance Brown; Hamlet (1964) Dwight Macdonald, Michael Kustow, Gabriel Pearson and Eric Rhode; Othello (1965) John Simon; The Taming of the Shrew (1966) Carey Harrison; and Chimes at Midnight (1966) Pierre Billard. Following the essays is a filmography of over 210 films made between 1900 and 1970 and an annotated bibliography of 36 books, reviews, and articles from 1946 to 1967 and seven filmographies from 1957 to 1968. (AL)
Descriptors: Anthologies, Audiovisual Communications, Comedy, Communications, Dramatics, Films, Literary Criticism, Mass Media, Theater Arts, Tragedy
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