Description:
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of The Tempest.
Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to
support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions
provide different readings of the original text.
Brief description: Lisa Hopkins is Professor of English at University of Sheffield Hallam. She has published numerous works on Shakespeare including her most recent work, Beginning Shakespeare (2005) and has written on film adaptations including Screening the Gothic. She is the Senior Editor of the online journal, Early Modern Literary Studies.
Review Quotes:
"'Lisa Hopkins' Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare's The Tempest is accessible and insightful...this book offers some valuable provocations into the screen afterlife of the Bard's 'late Romance'." --Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (2009)
"[The Screen Adaptations series] offers some meaty ideas to film studies students." --Susan Elkin, The Stage