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Star Adaptations: Queen Biopics of the 1930s
At the root of the biopic’s critical rather than commercial estimation is that it is a genre that ‘belongs’ to the actor. Drawing on pressbooks, trailers, trade and fan magazines, this chapter considers the fo...
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Marketing Shakespeare Films: From Tragedy to Biopic
In the sound era, the so-called heyday of film adaptations, Shakespeare and film became identified, as Louis B. Mayer famously declared, with Hollywood tragedy, or more precisely as box office poison.1 Indeed the...
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A Short History of Adaptation Studies in the Classroom
Adaptation studies is a growth area in the Arts and Humanities and has brought numerous multidisciplinary perspectives to what used to be more commonly known as ‘novel to film’ or ‘literature and film’ studies...
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Teaching Adaptations through Marketing: Adaptations and the Language of Advertising in the 1930s
F. R. Leavis identified advertising as the lowest and most insidious form of writing and in its blatant underhanded methods and shameless materialism, he put it to use to expose the tackiness of writers who ai...
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Becoming Jane in screen adaptations of Austen’s fiction
Austen’s popularity as a novelist has always been, for better or worse, intertwined with her mystique as a single woman. The fact that she left so little evidence of her personal self behind has led readers to...
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The First Adaptation of Shakespeare and the Recovery of the “Renaissance” Voice: Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew
There’s remarkably little critical attention given to the coming of sound in the first mainstream Shakespeare “talkie,” Sam Taylor’s The Taming of the Shrew (1929). While clearly chosen as a star vehicle for the ...
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Shakespeare and Race: Othello I.iii
Translating Othello’s self-defence for marrying Desdemona to stage or screen presents a number of difficulties. Even though more likely to wink at Othello’s misdemeanour because he is so needed in the war, the...
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Introduction
Talking Shakespeare, as its title implies, focuses on the reciprocal relationship between past and present, the way Shakespeare talks to us, the ways in which we talk about Shakespeare, and the way in which Shake...
