Screening early modern drama : beyond Shakespeare /

Aebischer, Pascale, 1970-

Screening early modern drama : beyond Shakespeare / Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: beyond Shakespeare: the contemporary Jacobean film -- Derek Jarman's queer contemporary Jacobean aesthetic: Caravaggio and Edward II -- The preposterous contemporary Jacobean film: Peter Greenaway's Cook, heritage Shakespeare and sexual exploitation in Mike Figgis's Hotel -- Third cinema, urban regeneration and heritage Shakespeare in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy -- Early modern performance and digital media: remediation and the evolving archival canon -- Bend it like Nagra: mainstreaming the changeling in Sarah Harding's Compulsion -- Conclusion: early modern dramatists on twenty-first century screens.



9781107250185


Film adaptations--History and criticism.
English drama--Film adaptations.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain--20th century


Electronic Books.

PN1997 / .S374 2013