Shakespeare in Space articles

Recent articles from Shakespeare in Space

Introduction.
January 1, 2002... My purpose here is descriptive and evaluative. Since many of the productions I examine are not commercially available, I hope to encourage them into circulation. In order to "see" Desmond Davis's Measure for Measure (BBC, 1978), for example,...

Editing for film: 1990-1996.(Chapter 1)
January 1, 2002... One of the cliches of the past fifty years--I heard it retailed recently at the Newport Film Festival--is that "if Shakespeare were alive today, of course he'd be a filmmaker." The assertion is far too kind to most films being made today, but...

History and television: two recent productions.(Chapter 2)
January 1, 2002... The technical aspects of television have improved and are improving with new and better screens and pictures. One might ask, though, what is the use of improvements on that side of the set when the content remains as it is? Television images...

Shakespeare on television: four recent productions.(Chapter 3)
January 1, 2002... Dennis Kennedy makes a distinction between metaphoric and metonymic modes of production (1993, 266-267). The metonymic approach sets the play in a world meant to reinforce meanings in the script. The metaphoric technique is neutral or...

The use and misuse of history: two recent films.(Chapter 4)
January 1, 2002... Any production occurs "in history," even if the production tries to escape a recognizable moment in the past. Some productions do, of course, and are often praised for their "post-modern indeterminacy." Shakespeare in Love survives some of...

Silents.(Chapter 5)
January 1, 2002... The release in early 2000 by the British Film Institute of six silent Shakespeare films provides a wonderful opportunity to look at very early filmed Shakespeare without traveling to London or New York and going through all kinds of...

Animated Shakespeare: second season.(Chapter 6)
January 1, 2002... No one would have predicted that the plays of Shakespeare would invade the space of the Saturday morning cartoon. They did, however, in a series of twelve half-hour productions in the early 1990s. As of 2001 they still appear, now and then,...

Titus and the genre of Revenge.(Chapter 7)
January 1, 2002... Perhaps Montresor achieves the perfect revenge. "A wrong," he says, "is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong." His...

Two recent Hamlets: The Branagh Shorter Version and the Almereyda.(Chapter 8)
January 1, 2002... The conceptual space of Hamlet is vaster and deeper than that of any other play. It is not just that the play comes forward from 1601 to be "a vehicle through which later cultures can reflect on pressing contemporary concerns" (Bate 1995,...

Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost.(Chapter 9)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The summer of 1939 was one of the most glorious that Europeans could remember--crystalline days, rainfall after midnight, clouds dissolved by dawn, no oppressive patches of muggy heat and no long stretches of industrial smoke nestling in the...

Conclusion.
January 1, 2002... The Shakespeare script teems with options. How a line is read at any given moment argues who the actor believes his character to be at that moment in relation to his understanding of himself, to the other characters in the play, and to the...

Bibliography.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2002... Allen, Henry. 1999. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 25 October, 10-11. Almereyda, Michael. 2000. "A Live Wire to the Brain: Hooking Up 'Hamlet.'" New York Times, 7 May, AR19, AR22. Andreae,...

Credits for productions.
January 1, 2002... Richard II. BBC-2. 1997. Color. 130 minutes. Directed by Deborah Warner. Music: Arturo Annecchino. Sets/Costumes by: Hildegard Bechter. With Fiona Shaw (Richard), Graham Crowden (Gaunt), Richard Bremmer (Bolingbroke), David Lyon (Mowbray),...