CONTENTS List of contributors page xi Preface xin A note on references xiv Introduction:Shakespeare,films and the marketplace I RUSSELL JACKSON PART 1 ADAPTATION AND ITS CONTEXTS I From play-script to screenplay RUSSELL JACKSON 2 Video and its paradoxes 35 MICHELE WILLEMS 3 Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history:the case of Richard Ill 47 BARBARA FREEDMAN 4 Shakespeare and movie genre:the case of Hamlet 之 HARRY KEYISHIAN PART 2.GENRES AND PLAYS 5 The comedies on film 85 MICHAEL HATTAWAY 6 Filming Shakespeare's history:three films of Richard Ill 99 H.R.COURSEN 7 Hamlet,Macbeth and King Lear on film J.LAWRENCE GUNTNER ixCONTENTS List of contributors page xi Preface xiii A note on references xiv Introduction:Shakespeare, films and the marketplace 1 russell jackson PART 1 · ADAPTAT ION AND ITS CONTEXTS 1 From play-script to screenplay 15 russell jackson 2 Video and its paradoxes 35 michèle willems 3 Critical junctures in Shakespeare screen history:the case of Richard III 47 barbara freedman 4 Shakespeare and movie genre:the case of Hamlet 72 harry keyishian PART 2 · GENRES AND PLAYS 5 The comedies on film 85 michael hattaway 6 Filming Shakespeare’s history:three films of Richard III 99 h. r. coursen 7 Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear on film 117 j. lawrence guntner ix