The Silent Shakespeare

Author : Robert Hamilton Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980841
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Silent Film written by Robert Hamilton Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019972802X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Movies written by Douglas Brode and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is now enjoying perhaps his most glorious--certainly his most popular--filmic incarnation. Indeed, the Bard has been splashed across the big screen to great effect in recent adaptations of Hamlet, Henry V, Othello, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and of course in the hugely successful Shakespeare in Love. Unlike previous studies of Shakespeare's cinematic history, Shakespeare in the Movies proceeds chronologically, in the order that plays were written, allowing the reader to trace the development of Shakespeare as an author--and an auteur--and to see how the changing cultural climate of the Elizabethans flowered into film centuries later. Prolific film writer Douglas Brode provides historical background, production details, contemporary critical reactions, and his own incisive analysis, covering everything from the acting of Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to the direction of Orson Welles, Kenneth Branagh, and others. Brode also considers the many films which, though not strict adaptations, contain significant Shakespearean content, such as West Side Story and Kurosawa's Ran and Throne of Blood. Nor does Brode ignore the ignoble treatment the master has sometimes received. We learn, for instance, that the 1929 version of The Taming of the Shrew (which featured the eyebrow-raising writing credit: "By William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor"), opens not so trippingly on the tongue--PETRUCHIO: "Howdy Kate." KATE: "Katherine to you, mug." For anyone wishing to cast a backward glance over the poet's film career and to better understand his current big-screen popularity, Shakespeare in the Movies is a delightful and definitive guide.

Author : Robert Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Shakespeare written by Robert Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's works to William Stanley, 6th earl of Derby.

Author : Robert Hamilton Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134980981
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Silent Film written by Robert Hamilton Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent films brought Shakespeare to a wide public who had never had the chance to see his plays in the theatre. And Shakespeare gave the film makers an air of respectability that was badly needed by a medium with a reputation for frivolity. This work, first published in 1968, brings history to life with excerpts from scenarios, from reviews and from contemporary film journals, and with reproduction of stills and frames from the films themselves, including unusual shots of leading screen actors. This is a valuable source book for film experts, enhanced by full notes, bibliography and indexes; a fresh approach for Shakespeareans; and a vivid sketch of a world that has passed for all.

Author : Robert Frazer
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021988959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Shakespeare written by Robert Frazer and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Silent Shakespeare', film historian Robert Frazer examines the artistry and influence of silent film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on silent era classics such as 'The Tempest' (1908) and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1909), Frazer illuminates the ways in which these early films contributed to the development of cinema as an art form. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Shakespeare written by Robert Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributing the authorship of Shakespeare's works to William Stanley, 6th earl of Derby.

Author : Robert Frazer
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230245980
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Shakespeare written by Robert Frazer and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II WILL SHAKSPERE. The material that we possess for a life of Shakspere consists of municipal records and of records of the theatrical company to which he belonged. We have no account of his literary or social life; and if we were to draw the usual conclusions from the absence of his name in the memoirs and correspondence of the day, we should have to believe that Shakspere had no part in the great social world, and no friendships outside of the narrow circle of his fellow-actors, and of his fellow-townsmen. A number of late and untrustworthy anecdotes have been collected which represent him as having been a butcher's boy of theatrical tendencies; as a deer stealer; as beginning in London by holding horses in front of a theatre; as seducing an inn-keeper's wife at Oxford, and as dying in consequence of a drunken spree. It is regrettable that all of the traditions should be of this character, and that none should survive to relate some act or word of kindness, some elevated thought or poetical saying to preserve a worthy memory of the personality of the greatest genius. One tale there is of a favor done to Jonson, which we shall see later to be apochryphal. Shakespeareans attribute to him the qualities which they conceive must have formed the equipment of one whom they lovingly call "The Master." They assume that he was dignified and cultured; a lawyer, a traveler, a soldier and a courtier. On the other hand, Baconians are prone to conceive of him as an ignorant, drunken boor, and a mere vulgar impostor. Neither of these extreme positions is justified by the facts. Shakspere appears to have been a shrewd, virile Englishman, with a taste for wine and for women, and a fondness for low company which remained with him to the end of...

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195139585
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Movies written by Douglas Brode and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work proceeds chronologically, in the order that plays were written, allowing the reader to trace the development of Shakespeare as an author and to see how the changing cultural climate of the Elizabethans flowered into film centuries later.

Author : Judith R. Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317874978
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on Film written by Judith R. Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest days of the cinema to the present, Shakespeare has offered a tempting bank of source material than the film industry has been happy to plunder. Shakespeare on Film deftly examines an extensive range of films that have emerged from the curious union of an iconic dramatist with a medium of mass appeal. The many films Buchanan studies are shown to be telling indicators of trends in Shakespearean performance interpretation, illuminating markers of developments in the film industry and culturally revealing about broader influences in the world beyond the movie theatre. As with other titles from the Inside Film series, the book is illustrated throughout with stills. Each chapter concludes with a list of suggested further reading in the field.

Author : Robert Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332774081
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) written by Robert Frazer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Silent Shakespeare In presenting the results of several years of preparation, the writer desires to acknowl edge his indebtedness to the large body of investigators, from Malone to Halliwell Phillipps, who have ransacked libraries and garrets for new light upon the subject of this sketch. To many of these something is owing, and frequent mention of authorities has been made in the text. But since it is clearly impracticable to trace, in every case, the source from which a suggestion has been received, this general acknowledgment is made, with the hope that no reference of importance has been omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.