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Book SynopsisOffers up-to-date coverage of screen versions of King Lear, featuring films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. This book will appeal to libraries and specialists working on King Lear in courses within Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare in performance and Shakespeare on screen.
Trade Review'… this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies
'The empathy that pervades the latest addition to the excellent Shakespeare on Screen series is at times overwhelming … this volume provides a perfect foundation from which to disperse and dislocate Lear's screen presence ever further.' Peter Kirwan, The Shakespeare Newsletter
'The collection contains more richly suggestive essays than I have space to mention; it will be indispensable to students of King Lear. The editors' calculated broad approach creates a collection that is more than the sum of its parts, and which is animated by a sense of conscience and compassion.' Sally Barnden, Shakespeare Bulletin
Table of Contents1. Introduction: dis-locating King Lear on screen Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin; Part I. Surviving Lear: Revisiting the Canon: 2. Lear's Fool on film: Peter Brook, Grigori Kozintsev, Akira Kurosawa Samuel Crowl; 3. Wicked humans and weeping Buddhas: (post)humanism and Hell in Kurosawa's Ran Melissa Croteau; Part II. Lear en abyme: Metatheater and the Screen: 4. Filming metatheater: the 'Dover cliff' scene on screen Sarah Hatchuel; 5. New ways of looking at Lear: changing relationships between theatre, screen and audience in live broadcasts of King Lear (2011–2016) Rachael Nicholas; 6. Re-shaping old course in a country new: producing nation, culture and King Lear in Slings and Arrows Lois Leveen; Part III. The Genres of Lear: 7. Negotiating authorship, genre and race in King of Texas (2002) Pierre Kapitaniak; 8. Romancing King Lear: Hobson's Choice, Life Goes On and beyond Diana E. Henderson; 9. 'Easy Lear': Harry and Tonto and the American road movie Douglas M. Lanier; Part IV. Lear on the Loose: Migrations and Appropriations of Lear: 10. Relocating Jewish culture in The Yiddish King Lear (1934) Jacek Fabiszak; 11. The Trump effect: exceptionalism, global capitalism and the war on women in early twenty-first century films of King Lear Courtney Lehmann; 12. Looking for Lear in The Eye of the Storm Victoria Bladen; 13. Between political drama and soap opera: appropriations of King Lear in US television series Boss and Empire Sylvaine Bataille and Anaïs Pauchet; 14. Afterword: Godard's King Lear Peter Holland; 15. King Lear on screen: select film-bibliography José Ramón Díaz Fernández.
