Description:
Anderegg considers Welles's influence as an interpreter of Shakespeare for twentieth-century American popular audiences, drawing on his knowledge of the abundant, lowbrow popularity of Shakespeare in nineteenth-century America. Welles's three film adaptations of Shakespeare, Macbeth, Othello, and Chimes at Midnight, are examined.
Review Quotes: A valuable and much-needed contribution to Welles studies. Anderegg's book represents for me an important intervention that throws light not only on certain neglected aspects of Welles's work--particullarly Everybody's Shakespeare and the Mercury Text Records--but also on a fresh new approach toward understanding his career as a whole.--Jonathan Rosenbaum, editor of This is Orson Welles