Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle

The essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love''s Labour''s Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare''s Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the pre...