Archive for October, 2004
From stage to screen: Shakespearean cinema and the twentieth century
0 Comments Published October 18th, 2004 in Academia.When, in 1929, Sam Taylor’s adaptation of the Taming of the Shrew first screened, audiences were aghast at the legend that read: “Written by William Shakespeare with Additional Dialogue by Sam Taylor” (Johnson 7). Since that time, the notion of Shakespeare’s oeuvre as a pure, untouched and untouchable canonical monolith has come under sustained and […]