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THE SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN INDUSTRY
Shakespeare on screen is now firmly placed within the literary canon. As Anthony Davies has argued (Davies and Wells 1994: 12), enlivened by the completion of the BBC/Time-Life project (1975–85) which televised the entire canon, critical discussion of screen adaptations of Shakespeare flourished. Although there were a handful of surveys of Shakespeare films before this (most notably, Jack Jorgens’ Shakespeare on Film, 1977, and Robert Manvell's Shakespeare and the Film, 1971), by the late 1980s, Shakespeare on screen gradually became part of the establishment, reflecting its growing academic respectability.1
What I'm suggesting here is that Shakespeare on screen has successfully crept from ...
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