Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Series: Shakespeare on Screen

From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.

Providing up-to-date coverage of screen versions of Romeo and Juliet, this book encompasses a broad range of media from canonical movies to web series. The chapters, written by internationally recognized scholars, revisit well-known films and TV productions, while also exploring free retellings and introducing appropriations from around the globe.

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From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.

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From canonical movies to web series, this volume provides fresh insights into the myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world. Ranging far beyond the Anglo-American sphere, the international cast of contributors explore translations, adaptations, free re-tellings and appropriations from India, France, Italy and Japan and demonstrate the constant evolution of technologies in the production, reception and dissemination of 'Shakespeare on screen'. The volume is complemented by helpful online essays and an extended online film-bibliography which guides readers through the often overwhelming range of filmic resources now available, providing valuable resources for research and pedagogy.

About the Author

Victoria Bladen is Sessional Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Australia. She has published six Shakespearean text guides in the Insight Publications series, most recently The Merchant of Venice (2020) and Much Ado About Nothing (2019). She co-edited Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear (CUP 2019), Shakespeare and the Supernatural (2020), Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England (2015) and Shakespeare on Screen: Macbeth (2013). Victoria is on the editorial board for the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). Sarah Hatchuel is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, and former president of the Société Française Shakespeare. She has written extensively on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays (Shakespeare and the Cleopatra/Caesar Intertext: Sequel, Conflation, Remake, 2011; Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, Cambridge University Press, 2004; A Companion to the Shakespearean Films of Kenneth Branagh, 2000) and on TV series (Lost: Fiction vitale, 2013; Rêves et series américaines: la fabrique d'autres mondes, 2015; The Leftovers: le troisième côté du miroir, 2019). Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare studies at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 and director of the 'Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l'âge Classique et les Lumières' (IRCL, UMR 5186 CNRS). She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Cahiers Élisabéthains and co-director (with Patricia Dorval) of the Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia Database (shakscreen.org). She has published The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England, Three Treatises (2012) and is the author of Shakespeare's Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary (2016).