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Introduction: Shakespeare, films and the marketplace Russell Jackson;Part I. Adaptation and its Contexts: 1. From play-script to screenplayRussell Jackson; 2. Video and its paradoxes Michele Willems; 3. Criticaljunctures in Shakespeare screen history: the case of Richard III BarbaraFreedman; 4. Shakespeare and movie genre: the case of Hamlet Harry Keyishian;Part II. Genres and Plays: 5. The comedies on film Michael Hattaway; 6.Filming Shakespeare's history: three films of Richard III H. R. Coursen; 7.Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film Lawrence Guntner; 8. The tragedies oflove on film Patricia Tatspaugh; Part III. Directors: 9. The Shakespearefilms of Laurence Olivier Anthony Davies; 10. Orson Welles and filmedShakespeare Pamela Mason; 11. Grigori Kozintsev's Hamlet and King Lear MarkSokolyansky; 12. Franco Zeffirelli and Shakespeare Deborah Cartmell; 13.Flamboyant realist: Kenneth Branagh Samuel Crowl; Part IV. Critical Issues:14. Looking at Shakespeare's women on film Carol Chillington Rutter; 15.National and racial stereotypes in Shakespeare films Neil Taylor; 16.Shakespeare the illusionist: filming the supernatural Neil Forsyth; 17.Shakespeare's cinematic offshoots Tony Howard; Further reading; Filmography.