Films and Adaptations

Orson Welles. Macbeth. (1948)

Akira Kurasawa. Throne of Blood. (1957)

Roman Polanski. The Tragedy of Macbeth. (1971)

Philip Casson. Macbeth. (1979)

Jeremy Freeston. Macbeth. (1997)

Billy Morrissette. Scotland, PA. (2001)

Geoffrey Wright. Macbeth. (2006)

Christopher J. Prouty. Never Say Macbeth. (2007)

Mark Brozel. Shakespeare Retold: Macbeth. (BBC, 2007)

Greg Watkins. This is Macbeth. (2008)

Criticism

Burt, Richard. “Shakespeare and Asia in Post-diasporic Cinemas: Spin-Offs and Citations of the Plays from Bollywood to Hollywood.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 265-303.

Crowl, Samuel. “Chain Reaction: Polanski’s Macbeth and Its Legacy.” Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen. Athens: Ohio UP, 1992. 19-34.

Dawson, Anthony. “Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Reading Kurosawa/Reading Shakespeare.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. 155-175.

Forsyth, Neil. “Shakespeare the Illusionist: Filming the Supernatural.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 274-294.

Gunter, Lawrence. “Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear on Film.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 117-134.

Jorgens, Jack J. “Defining Macbeth: George Schaefer, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 148-160.

---. “Roman Polanski’s Macbeth.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 161-174.

Lehmann, Courtney. “Out Damned Scot: Dislocating Macbeth in Transnational Film and Media Culture.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 231-251.

Manvell, Roger. “Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth, the Castle of the Spider’s Web.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 101-113.

---. “Shakespeare by Orson Welles.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 55-71.

Mason, Pamela. “Orson Welles and filmed Shakespeare.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 183-198.

Mullin, Michael. “Stage and Screen: The Trevor Nunn Macbeth.” Shakespeare Quarterly 38.3 (Fall): 350-59.

Reynolds, Bryan. “Untimely Ripped: Mediating Witchcraft in Polanski and Shakespeare.” The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Eds. Lisa S. Sparks and Courtney Lehmann. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., 2002. 143-164.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. (1999). “Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the Art Houses.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 69-90.

---. (1999). “Shakespeare in Love, in Love with Shakespeare: The Adoration after the Millenium.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 248-274. (incl. brief discussions of Shakespeare in Love, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Children’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ten Things I Hate About You, The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus)