…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, [...]
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(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) reviewed by Debra Murphy
A funny thing happened between the time I graduated from the University of Illinois in 1976, when I first heard the word “Semiotics” (but hadn’t a clue what it meant), and the early nineties, when I began researching Shakespeare lit [...]
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