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Apocalyptic Shakespeare

essays on visions of destruction and revelation in recent film adaptations

Carolyn Jess-Cooke · Jan 1, 2009 · 244 pages · eng

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"Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scènes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens"--Provided by publisher.