Shakespeare 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
Transmission details: 26 Sep 2023
Duration: 42 mins

Production type: Documentary/Educational/News
Plays: All’s Well That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; Comedy of Errors, The; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet; Henry IV Part 1; Henry IV Part 2; Henry V; Henry VI part 1; Henry VI part 2; Henry VI part 3; Henry VIII; Julius Caesar; King John; King Lear; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Merchant of Venice, The; Merry Wives of Windsor, The; Midsummer Night’s Dream, A; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Richard II; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; Taming of the Shrew, The; Tempest, The; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth Night; Two Gentlemen of Verona, The; Two Noble Kinsmen, The; Winter’s Tale, The
Subjects: Drama; Film studies; Shakespeare
Keywords: Adaptation
Related items: Campanadas a Medianoche; Hamlet; Hamlet; Henry V; Henry V; Orson Welles’ Macbeth Restored; Othello; Ran; Richard III; William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’

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