news, views and reviews of Shakespeare on film (and in the Pacific Northwest)
Apr 16th, 2007 by Debra Murphy
…according to Daniel Rosenthal, author of Shakespeare on Screen and the soon-to-be-published 100 Shakespeare Films. The Guardian UK has an article on Rosenthal’s thesis here.
Here’s how the article begins:
Shakespeare is box-office poison - or so the thinking goes. But if you look at the hundreds of blockbuster epics, westerns and rom-coms based on his work, it’s clear that he is the saviour of cinema, says Daniel Rosenthal
Shakespeare's Othello meets Spenser's Faerie Queene in this new and provocative mystery-thriller set in Milwaukee.
This is the story of James Ireton, a gifted young Shakespeare scholar haunted by a tragic past and recurring nightmares of a Knight, a Lady and a vicious Dragon. James thinks they’re just dreams, but when two people close to him fall victim in a seemingly motive-less series of brutal murders, James discovers there may be a very real Dragon preying in the shadows of his life. Worse, if he doesn’t find a bit of St. George in himself, the woman he loves may prove the Dragon’s ultimate victim.