Aebischer, Pascale, 1970-

Screening early modern drama : beyond Shakespeare / spine title : Screening early modern drama. Pascale Aebischer. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. - xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references : (p. 252-266) and index.

Introduction: beyond Shakespeare: the contemporary Jacobean film -- Derek Jarman's queer contemporary Jacobean aesthetic: Caravaggio and Edward II -- The preposterous contemporary Jacobean film: Peter Greenaway's Cook, heritage Shakespeare and sexual exploitation in Mike Figgis's Hotel -- Third cinema, urban regeneration and heritage Shakespeare in Alex Cox's Revengers tragedy -- Early modern performance and digital media: remediation and the evolving archival canon -- Bend it like Nagra: mainstreaming the changeling in Sarah Harding's Compulsion -- Conclusion: early modern dramatists on twenty-first century screens.

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --History and criticism.--Film adaptations


Film adaptations--History and criticism.
English drama--Film adaptations.--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
Motion pictures and literature.
Motion pictures--History.--Great Britain--20th century