Learning on ScreenShakespeare on Screen
- Synopsis
- YouTube video by Jeff Palermo in which he discusses the film and TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that he thinks worked most successfully. He references a number of celebrated adaptations including Orson Welles’ Othello, Macbeth and Chimes at Midnight, the BBC’s An Age of Kings and The Hollow Crown, Kenneth’s Branagh and Laurence Olivier’s film versions of Hamlet and Henry V and Luhrmann and Zeffirelli’s films from Romeo and Juliet. Akira Kurosawa’a Ran, from King Lear, is one of the few foreign language versions covered.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video
- Subjects
- Drama; Film studies; Shakespeare
- Keywords
- Adaptation
- Related items
- Chimes at Midnight
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hamlet (1996)
- Henry V
- Henry V (1944)
- Orson Welles’ Macbeth Restored (1948)
- Othello (1952)
- Ran
- Richard III (1955)
- Romeo + Juliet
Online availability
- URI
- https://youtu.be/AF_-h4v-el4?si=Rj2oPD-PF9LUceQc
- Delivery
- Streamed
Distributor
- Name
YouTube
- Web
- http://www.youtube.com External site opens in new window
Record Stats
This record has been viewed 363 times.
