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Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations

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Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations - Croteau, Melissa (Editor), and Jess-Cooke, Carolyn, Professor (Editor)
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise ...

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Apocalyptic Shakespeare: Essays on Visions of Chaos and Revelation in Recent Film Adaptations 2009, McFarland and Company, Inc., Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786433926

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