Screen Adaptations The Tempest

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408149656
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Adaptations: The Tempest written by Lisa Hopkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow's 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and others linked with the chosen film and text.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Methuen Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Adaptations: The Tempest written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Methuen Drama. This book was released on 2008-05-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of numerous film versions of The Tempest and their adaptation from the original text.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804141304
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hag-Seed written by Margaret Atwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408149664
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screen Adaptations: The Tempest written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on numerous film versions, from Percy Stow's 1908 adaptation to Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books, the book discusses: the literary text in its historical context, key themes and dominant readings of the text, how the text is adapted for screen and how adaptations have changed our reading of the original text. There are numerous excerpts from the literary text, screenplays and shooting scripts, with suggestions for comparison. The book also features quotations from authors, screenwriters, directors, critics and others linked with the chosen film and text.

Author : Jacqueline Carey
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765386801
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Miranda and Caliban written by Jacqueline Carey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda and Caliban is bestselling fantasy author Jacqueline Carey’s gorgeous retelling of The Tempest. With hypnotic prose and a wild imagination, Carey explores the themes of twisted love and unchecked power that lie at the heart of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, while serving up a fresh take on the play's iconic characters. A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero's quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the so-called savage Prospero chained to his will? In this incredible retelling of the fantastical tale, Jacqueline Carey shows readers the other side of the coin—the dutiful and tenderhearted Miranda, who loves her father but is terribly lonely. And Caliban, the strange and feral boy Prospero has bewitched to serve him. The two find solace and companionship in each other as Prospero weaves his magic and dreams of revenge. Always under Prospero’s jealous eye, Miranda and Caliban battle the dark, unknowable forces that bind them to the island even as the pangs of adolescence create a new awareness of each other and their doomed relationship. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801891876
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Adaptation and Its Discontents written by Thomas Leitch and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tempest written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
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Download or read book Prospero's Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press kit includes 1 pamphlet, 1 sheet of loose copy, and 7 photographs.

Author : Peter Hulme
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861890665
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tempest and Its Travels written by Peter Hulme and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tempest and its Travels offers a new map of the play by means of an innovative collection of historical, critical, and creative texts and images.

Author : Derek Jarman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Tempest" written by Derek Jarman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working copy of the screenplay for Derek Jarman's 1979 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Tempest.