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Shakespeare and Film: A Bibliography of Criticism

 
The Tempest (1611)
 

Films and Adaptations

Fred M. Wilcox. Forbidden Planet. (1956)

George Schaefer. The Tempest. (1960)

Derek Jarman. The Tempest. (1979)

Paul Mazursky. Tempest. (1982)

Peter Greenaway. Prospero's Books. (1991)

Jack Bender. The Tempest. (1998)

 

Criticism

Barker, Francis, and Peter Hume. "'Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish': The Discursive Con-Texts of The Tempest." In Alternative Shakespeares. Edited by John Drakakis. New York, NY: Methuen, 1985. ISBN: 041502528.

Brown, Paul. "'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine': The Tempest and the Discourse of Colonialism." In Political Shakespeare: new essays in Cultural materialism. Edited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1985, pp. 48-71. ISBN: 9780801493256.

Bruster, Douglas. "The Postmodern Theater of Paul Mazursky's Tempest." In Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle. Edited by Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2000, pp. 26-39. ISBN: 9780312231484.

Coursen, H. R. “‘Tis Nudity’: Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books.” Watching Shakespeare on Television. Cranbury, NJ: Associated UP, 1993. 163-176.

Donaldson, Peter S. “Shakespeare in the Age of Post-Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and Electronic Magic in Prospero’s Books.Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 105-119.

---. "Digital Archives and Sibylline Fragments: The Tempest and the End of Books." Postmodern Culture 8.2 (Jan., 1998). Special Issue on Film.

---. "Shakespeare in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Sexual and Electronic Magic in Prospero's Books." In Shakespeare the Movie: Popularizing the plays on Film, TV and Video. Edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 169-185. ISBN: 9780415165853.

Fuller, Mary. "Forgetting the Aeneid." American Literary History (Summer, 1992): 517-38.

Greenblatt, Stephen. "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the 16th Century." In First images of America: The Impact of the New World in the Old. Edited by Fredi Chapelli. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 561-580. Repr. in Greenblatt, Stephen. Learning to Curse. London, UK: Routledge, 1976, pp. 16-39. ISBN: 9780520030107.

Hotchkiss, Lia M. “The Incorporation of Word as Image in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books.” The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Eds. Lisa S. Sparks and Courtney Lehmann. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corp., 2002. 95-120.

Lanier, Douglas. "Drowning the Book: Prospero's Books and the Textual Shakespeare." In Shakespeare, Theory and Performance. Edited by James C. Bulman. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995, pp.187-209. ISBN: 9780415116251.

Mannoni, Ottavo. Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonialism. Translated by Pamela Powesland. New York, NY: Praeger, 1964 [1950]. ASIN: B0007F2P0G.

Rothwell, Kenneth S. (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. 2nd 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)

Vaughan, Alden T., and Virginia Mason Brown. Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780521403054.

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