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About the Author
Mark Thornton Burnett is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen's University, Belfast. He is the author of Masters and Servants in English Renaissance Drama and Culture: Authority and Obedience (Macmillan, 1997), Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture (Palgrave, 2002) and Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave, 2007).
Reviews
The ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. -- Ewan Fernie, Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. -- Peter S. Donaldson, Department of Literature, MIT, & Director of the Shakespeare Electronic Archive Screening Shakespeare is the first anthology specifically to address screen Shakespeare in the new millennium ... this consistently superb collection offers the critical state of the art. ... The contributions are so strong that it is difficult to single out essays for special praise. ...provides refreshing and current insight... Film & History The ten essays in this collection ! have something new and special to offer. The book is cutting-edge not only because it is sharply focused on the latest screen versions of Shakespeare, but also because of its twenty-first century approach to the subject. Brings the study of Shakespeare on film bang up to date...These are engaged and provocative critical assessments of twenty-first-century Shakespeare and post-millennial culture in general. The editors' period- and theme-based approach offers (in addition to the excitement of genuinely new and illuminating approaches) real clarity and direction. Screening Shakespeare is the first anthology specifically to address screen Shakespeare in the new millennium ... this consistently superb collection offers the critical state of the art. ... The contributions are so strong that it is difficult to single out essays for special praise. ...provides refreshing and current insight...
Book Information
ISBN 9780748623518
Author Mark Thornton Burnett
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 344g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 23mm