Shakespeare's Cinema of Love : A Study in Genre and Influence.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Shakespeare shaping modern movie genres -- Influence -- Genre -- Writers for the screen -- Notes -- 1 'Madly mated': The Taming of the Shrew and odd- couple comedy -- Filmed versions of Shakespeare's Shrew -- A musical Shrew -- 'Odd-couple' comedy -- All about Bianca -- Who's afraid of shrews? -- Notes -- 2 Dreams in the forest: romantic comedy -- Shakespearean comedy as composite form -- Dreams in a green world -- Art writing the script of love: playing roles in As You Like It -- Notes -- 3 'The guy's only doing it for some doll': musical comedy -- Shakespeare in musicals -- Allusions to Shakespeare -- Contrasted settings and backstage musicals -- Musicals of family romance -- Much ado about Nathan -- Notes -- 4 Of errors and Eros: a brief digression on twins -- Notes -- 5 Comedy of disguise and mistaken identity -- Gendered disguise -- Cross-dressing in films -- 'Slumming': class, non-gendered disguise, and mistaken identity -- Notes -- 6 'Star-crossed lovers': Romeo and Juliet and romantic tragedy -- Landmark versions -- Out of America -- World film -- India: folklore meets Shakespeare -- A Welsh Romeo and Juliet -- Star-crossed comedy and parodies -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Shakespeare's cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing arguments are made for the links between his comedies of love and genres such as 'screwball' comedy, musicals, romantic comedy and tragic love films.

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